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hello mission control

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hey ryan this is mission control houston

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how do you guys hear me

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we hear you very well we do have

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northeast elementary or northeast

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nottaway elementary from ravenwood

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missouri with with us today and uh you

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are welcome to

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to take it from here they have some

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really cool questions for you okay

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thanks ryan and uh

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guys and girls welcome to you know

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mission control houston this is where we

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actually you control all the systems and

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monitor everything on board the

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international space station uh joining

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me right now is todd kwasny he's one of

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our odin flight controllers uh todd what

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what are some of the systems you're

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responsible for

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so as a as a odin flight controller

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we're in charge of most of the

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the core computer systems on the space

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station so when i say corcoran's core

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system i mean something that actually

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flies the space station so something

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that you know talks to the the

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communication systems and make sure that

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we're pointing the right direction and

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we're tracking this on things like that

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it's kind of like your outer space it

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guy too you got it i'm kind of like the

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it uh fix it guy okay well uh we're real

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excited to take some of your questions

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today why don't you give us the first

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i think the question was one day could

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mars be inhabitable

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well you know uh i i'm not sure we have

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a lot of people looking into that and uh

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unfortunately i

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something that i don't work with

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directly so uh i i certainly hope so it

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seems like it'd be a great great thing

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to do if

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we could get there and inhabit mars we

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certainly yeah we certainly hope so i

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mean there are there are signs kind of

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that mars may have had a climate like

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ours i you know many millions and

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millions and millions of years ago even

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billions uh so if some future

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civilization gets something like

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terraforming which any of you sci-fi

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people

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know is kind of like making a planet's

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atmosphere more like ours i know some of

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the methods that are you know

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everything's very hypothetical right now

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because that kind of technology just

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does not exist but who knows maybe a

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human civilization a million years from

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now will have the ability to

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make an atmosphere and turn mars

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habitable but i mean right now it's it's

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way too cold

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doesn't have you know earth's protective

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magnetosphere which protects us from all

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that dangerous radiation

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so i mean it would it would be a huge

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project and it's something we as a

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civilization couldn't tackle right now

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but maybe sometime in the future we

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um did you guys have anything to do with

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the angry birds thing the angry birds

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space

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wow well i i can tell you that uh i i've

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played a lot of angry birds space and

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i'm a big fan that's uh that's for sure

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it's always fun to uh to see um you know

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space applications like that and

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get to see uh something that's something

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you're not used to used to you know

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playing the original angry birds uh you

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know watching the birds fall just like

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they would here on earth but uh seeing

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what they were doing in spaces is a lot

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of fun

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and i i do know they talk to a few of

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our scientists you know help them get

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down things like

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the mechanics of actually moving through

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gravity like if

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i'm sure a bunch of you guys have been

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playing angry bird space uh when you're

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actually shooting into an atmosphere

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you'll you'll go into an orbit and

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uh that's they're actually pretty

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spot-on i've heard with the mechanics of

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doing that and also just moving through

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the vacuum in angry bird space so we we

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did have a little bit to do with it but

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i mean we didn't we didn't create the

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whenever you're up in the international

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space station can you call from your

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cell phone if you have it

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that is a really good question so

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um that you know that that's a common

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thing that the astronauts want to do

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they're up there for a really long time

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and they uh they really like to keep in

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touch with what's going on

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on earth as much as possible so

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one of the things that we we give to

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them you know the ability is is a phone

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it's called the ip phone and it's it's

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very similar to the phone that you would

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have at your house where you can pick up

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the phone and and dial just about any

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number you want we can't call up to them

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that way but uh they're able to on their

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own time call call just about any any

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number they want they talk to a lot of

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their friends and family that way and it

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really helps them keep in touch with uh

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with what's going on um you know the

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outside of just what they can read in in

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news or email

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but no no cell phones on space so

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they're not texting back and forth all

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day while they're supposed to be working

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no no no no cell phones they um they we

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we keep them on a strict schedule during

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they're not they get distracted too much

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by uh by text messages or phone calls or

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even playing angry birds

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um what time is it up there right now

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so so time is something that we we kind

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of take for granted you know you you

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look at a clock on the wall or or at

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your watch and you see what time it is

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but but the problem with uh time and

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space is the fact that the space station

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goes uh around the earth every 90

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times on on the ground whereas whereas

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adopted uh greenwich mean time so gmt

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and uh all the control centers from from

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around the country that uh that interact

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that we're all in sync and the the crew

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uses that on board as well

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time so it's that's what time it is up

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hey dan this is ryan shafer at the dln i

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think we may have lost the

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school if we are patient we may be able

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to re-establish a connection okay ryan

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we'll be standing by

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okay cool she switched

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okay i'm glad to hear that mission

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welcome back i apologize all right i

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hope uh everything is still okay on your

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end but i i i i'm hoping that uh dan and

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our guests today are still able to

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answer some questions yup we're still

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here and ready to go ryan

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great then i'll let the kids ask some

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can we hear the answer to the last

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question about the time zone because we

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didn't get all of that oh yeah sure

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time and space is is a little bit

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difficult it's something we take for

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the the space station's going around the

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earth every 90 minutes it's going really

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really fast so it's it's not something

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centers that uh that talk and control

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world all all use the same time so that

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we use the same time as the space

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things at the same time and looking at

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know 4 15 they use the military the 24

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hour times so right now yet 16 15 on

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living organisms could survive on any

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any living organisms could survive on

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that that very same thing you know kind

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of goes back to you know our is mars

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inhabitable and

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things have to happen um between now and

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that uh that that's something that

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it's a goal for a lot of people

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i think it is definitely possible um i

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something's going to be alive it has to

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have things like sunlight and water

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uninhabitable places on earth actually

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well be alive so it's it's definitely a

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possibility when there's

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as many stars and planets out there as

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there are you never know

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what is r2 doing now

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so right now r2 is uh

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he's asleep if you will so um when when

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when he's not out and and activated then

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we keep him all all uh

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buttoned up and and kind of kind of

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sleeping in his own little uh cubby hole

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so i i think that the crew isn't

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scheduled to to play with r2 today

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but uh i know coming out here pretty

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soon they'll pull them out for for some

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more tests and uh we'll get to to

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further expand and understand exactly

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everything that we can can use r2 for

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and so it's a wonderful wonderful tool

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and and a great uh asset for nasa yep

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and i mean some of the tests that

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they've been doing lately they've been

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kind of powering them on and moving his

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arms around and i think he might have

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done some sign language the other day

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yeah the other day i saw he signed hello

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world american sign language it was it

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was a really neat thing to see so just

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kind of putting him through his first

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paces and getting them ready for some

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more advanced stuff coming up

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do you get that one

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i'm sorry could you ask the question one

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could the clock go backwards up in space

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does the clock go backwards up in space

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so

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um

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not not really the the the clocks clocks

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in space you know operate just like they

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they do here on the ground you know

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they'll they'll just uh measure how many

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seconds or how many minutes or hours are

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going by and they'll just kind of kind

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of take away we i'm not that i know that

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we've ever seen one one go backwards and

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unless we're we're setting the clock

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like uh like we would hear on the ground

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we haven't quite mastered time travel

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yet but you know we're all hoping

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sometime in the future uh one

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interesting thing that could happen in

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space flight and once you guys kind of

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get into some higher level science and

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math courses is the idea that if you're

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traveling really really fast time

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doesn't go backwards but it slows down

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um and so there are

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studies being done with clocks that you

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know we send them out there and they

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travel at thousands and thousands and

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thousands of miles an hour and when you

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compare them to a clock here on earth i

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mean it's the time has progressed a

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little bit slower on those clocks but i

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mean it's such a such a small amount

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unless you're traveling the speed of

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light which we don't quite do yet

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it's not even noticeable so they don't

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go backwards but we may someday be able

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to slow time down

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astronauts have a favorite of what kind

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do astronauts have favorite foods uh you

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know they they do and then it's kind of

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a an individual taste just just like you

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would here on the ground you know

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sometimes you know you like a good you

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know hamburger hot dogs nice people like

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you know spaghetti or lasagna so it's

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it's the same thing for the for the

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astronauts on the space station they

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have a wide variety of food to choose

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from

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and uh they uh

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they they kind of their own favorites

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what i'm what i'm told a lot of them

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tell me uh after they come back is they

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really like spicy foods for for some

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reason you know when they get into space

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uh something about spicy foods just is a

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little bit more appealing to them so i

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hear the shrimp cocktail is to die for

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when you're in space quite a bit yeah so

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uh so um they they do have foods that

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they have a lot of different kinds is

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kind of the big thing to keep in mind so

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they they try a lot of different things

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so pretty much almost whatever you like

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on the ground you can have up in space

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just about to a degree yeah just about

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you can have a

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you know of all kinds of different kinds

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of food

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all right next question guys

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well which

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where is the international space station

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over the earth right now

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oh wow where is the over the earth right

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now well it looks like we are tracking

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right over the northern pacific ocean

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uh it's so it's pretty much right in the

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middle of the ocean right now and it's

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about

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247 miles above the surface

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so and again it's moving at about i

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think 17 500 miles an hour that's

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correct so it's only going to be there

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for a little while pretty soon it'll be

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over a completely other part of the

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planet as it goes around in about 90

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minutes

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looks like it's coming up pretty here

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pretty soon on the southern part of

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south america and it'll fly up

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over europe and then

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then over uh

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go back over you know the pacific ocean

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again yep

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all right next question guys

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um does their food come in like packages

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like military food does

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oh that that's a good one to know you

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know that i think that's something that

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uh that someone should ask before they

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become an astronaut is you know how's

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the food come

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so like i said there there's a wide

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variety of food they get to eat a number

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of different kinds but they're they're

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kind of broken up in the into several

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categories so uh the military you know

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style food that you're talking about is

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uh you know mres meals ready to eat so

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it's kind of a

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you know a package where you can open

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and eat it right away

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and uh and and some astronauts really

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like the the mres to let them come from

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the military or a lot of you know

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camping and hiking backgrounds so uh

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they're used to that kind of food and

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they eat a lot uh some food comes

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dehydrated so they have

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they have to and put water into it first

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so they they'll heat up with some water

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and make it warm and then and inject it

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into into the food and it kind of comes

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to life if you will need that and then

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there's some some food that's uh

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that's a little bit more fresh and and

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ready to eat but um that they don't get

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a whole lot of that so it's it's it's

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kind of a treat when they're able to eat

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some some fresh fruit vegetables yeah i

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know um on the cargo craft that just

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stocked one of the european ones i

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brought up some fresh fruit for the crew

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and they always look forward to that

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they get real excited because i mean

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pretty much pretty much the vast

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majority of the food it's kind of like

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these little

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dehydrated plastic packets where they

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have to put water in and like you said

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it kind of makes the food come to life

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after that

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yeah exactly and i know on the on the

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cargo vehicle just talked we make sure

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that we pack the food one of the last

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things to make sure they can get to it

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quick because they're really looking

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forward to that you don't want to open

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it up and have all kinds of nasty smells

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coming out as soon as they open up that

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cargo vehicle all right next question

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what kind of training do they do to

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prepare for everything was that what i

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yes okay

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training well you know that that's a big

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uh it's a really really good question

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and very insightful

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um you know

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quite often you see astronauts on tv and

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you know watch nasa tv and and see them

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floating around doing all these really

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cool things you know these cool you know

447
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science experiments and getting to play

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with r2 and all those types of things

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but what you don't see is the hours and

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hours and hours that the astronauts have

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to go through training they they do all

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kinds of training everything from you

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know learning about the the simpsons on

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systems onboard the space station just

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in case something were to go wrong

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they they spend a lot of time uh with

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the the science developers the the

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science folks to sit down and make sure

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that they're doing all their science

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experiments correctly and they're

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they're getting all the all the good

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data back back to earth

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to be studied and analyzed

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and then they do a lot of training for

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specific tasks like a spacewalk so

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they'll go and go into the neutral

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buoyancy lab and go into the big pool

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get in their spacesuits and practice

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doing spacewalks so you know for for

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everything you see them do

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do uh all the cool stuff floating around

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the space station um there's many many

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hours behind the scenes where they they

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drive and learn how to do that how long

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do they train you know before they

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actually launch on these expeditions

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um

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know it's on order of years so you know

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sometimes you know astronauts will train

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for you know two or two or three years

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before they they're able to go up on the

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space station to do all the various

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things they need to do so about two

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years of training for six months of

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actual space flight time so there's

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there's a lot of you know front-end

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stuff involved before they actually get

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to go up there and do all the fun things

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yeah absolutely when and even while

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they're up there we'll we'll do some

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training with them you know we'll you

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know we mention the some of the

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different types of ways we can

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communicate with the with astronauts

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we'll sit down and

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go through some additional training

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maybe something coming up that they

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haven't quite seen before they need a

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refresher we'll sit down and train them

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while they're up there too so a lot of

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training a lot of school it and it never

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ends there's always learning to do never

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stop learning all right next question

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do they have to train whenever they get

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back

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and they they do do a lot of work when

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they get back um you know post mission

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them um one of the bigger things that

509
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they do is not necessarily receive a

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whole lot of training but they conduct a

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lot of training you know once you've

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been up there for six months you know

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you you are the are the expert on on on

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how to operate the space station and

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what to do so we really try to

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capitalize on a lot of their experience

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and and knowledge when they come back to

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to teach the next generation of

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astronauts you know um you know just all

520
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the little ins and outs and tips and

521
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tricks of of of how to really maximize

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this this wonderful space station that

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we have so it's it's there there's not

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necessarily training that they receive

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but they they do conduct a lot of

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training

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you astronauts exercise up in space

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oh boy do that in quite a bit yes so you

529
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know the the the environment of space is

530
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really hard on the human body you know

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um without without gravity you know the

532
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your muscles don't have to to to work as

533
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hard and you know the heart doesn't have

534
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to pump blood as much and and the bones

535
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don't have to support your structure all

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that much

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so

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um one of the things we have to do to

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counteract all all the the effects of

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space on the human body is exercise so

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they usually extras about two hours a

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day so a good portion of their day is

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spent just exercising they can do

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anything from running on a treadmill to

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uh you know riding on an exercise bike

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to to

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doing some some things that kind of

548
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simulate uh you know doing some weight

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lifting it's kind of like a like a giant

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bowflex so you know they they uh they do

551
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extensive amount of exercising you know

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to make sure that when they get back to

553
00:22:03,909 --> 00:22:01,760
the back to earth that uh their body

554
00:22:05,830 --> 00:22:03,919
still can can work in this this gravity

555
00:22:07,830 --> 00:22:05,840
environment and so that they can still

556
00:22:08,950 --> 00:22:07,840
walk and and move and lift things so

557
00:22:10,549 --> 00:22:08,960
it's it's very important to the

558
00:22:11,909 --> 00:22:10,559
astronauts to exercise we've actually

559
00:22:13,750 --> 00:22:11,919
heard some of them come back and they

560
00:22:15,430 --> 00:22:13,760
almost feel stronger just because of all

561
00:22:17,029 --> 00:22:15,440
that exercise they've been doing up on

562
00:22:18,230 --> 00:22:17,039
space i mean two hours a day it's quite

563
00:22:19,909 --> 00:22:18,240
it's quite a bit

564
00:22:21,750 --> 00:22:19,919
yeah yeah they uh they they really work

565
00:22:23,510 --> 00:22:21,760
their muscles and and sets a lot of

566
00:22:25,029 --> 00:22:23,520
habits you know a lot of them become

567
00:22:25,990 --> 00:22:25,039
you know big exercise buffs afterwards

568
00:22:27,510 --> 00:22:26,000
because they're so used to doing it for

569
00:22:31,270 --> 00:22:27,520
two hours a day

570
00:22:36,470 --> 00:22:34,149
has anybody ever got hurt doing

571
00:22:38,310 --> 00:22:36,480
stuff

572
00:22:40,630 --> 00:22:38,320
has anyone ever gotten hurt doing things

573
00:22:41,909 --> 00:22:40,640
well you know just like like working you

574
00:22:43,510 --> 00:22:41,919
know uh

575
00:22:45,350 --> 00:22:43,520
here on earth you know there's some

576
00:22:46,710 --> 00:22:45,360
things to happen you know the

577
00:22:49,350 --> 00:22:46,720
uh you know you get you know a little

578
00:22:51,430 --> 00:22:49,360
bumper or bruise but you know uh

579
00:22:53,909 --> 00:22:51,440
they do a a lot of work making sure that

580
00:22:55,510 --> 00:22:53,919
everything the astronauts do in space is

581
00:22:57,350 --> 00:22:55,520
very safe you know it's something that

582
00:22:58,950 --> 00:22:57,360
we take very very seriously and and

583
00:23:00,789 --> 00:22:58,960
dedicate a lot of time and you know we

584
00:23:01,990 --> 00:23:00,799
talk about a lot of training uh training

585
00:23:04,230 --> 00:23:02,000
the crew does to make sure that

586
00:23:08,870 --> 00:23:04,240
everything every aspect of their job is

587
00:23:09,909 --> 00:23:08,880
is safe so uh you know you know we uh

588
00:23:11,590 --> 00:23:09,919
to my knowledge i don't think an

589
00:23:12,950 --> 00:23:11,600
astronaut has ever actually been injured

590
00:23:15,270 --> 00:23:12,960
in any way

591
00:23:16,950 --> 00:23:15,280
i'm pretty sure and i mean even if they

592
00:23:18,470 --> 00:23:16,960
were there are a lot of flight surgeons

593
00:23:20,310 --> 00:23:18,480
and people here you know in mission

594
00:23:22,310 --> 00:23:20,320
control and all around

595
00:23:23,669 --> 00:23:22,320
the country that monitor all the

596
00:23:25,510 --> 00:23:23,679
astronauts health and everything like

597
00:23:27,669 --> 00:23:25,520
that while they're on board so if a

598
00:23:30,710 --> 00:23:27,679
problem ever did arose you know we'd

599
00:23:31,750 --> 00:23:30,720
have people here to help them handle it

600
00:23:33,190 --> 00:23:31,760
absolutely

601
00:23:34,789 --> 00:23:33,200
all right and i think we got about one

602
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minute left so let's do one last

603
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um

604
00:23:45,190 --> 00:23:42,559
what do they drink up in

605
00:23:47,750 --> 00:23:45,200
in the international space station

606
00:23:51,190 --> 00:23:47,760
what do they drink tang right tang tang

607
00:23:52,549 --> 00:23:51,200
is the drink of all astronauts um

608
00:23:54,230 --> 00:23:52,559
they they drink a number of different

609
00:23:55,990 --> 00:23:54,240
things they drink a lot of water you

610
00:23:57,350 --> 00:23:56,000
know they just just like

611
00:23:59,110 --> 00:23:57,360
on earth you know water is really good

612
00:24:00,950 --> 00:23:59,120
for them and then they they drink as

613
00:24:02,390 --> 00:24:00,960
much of that as they can you know in the

614
00:24:04,390 --> 00:24:02,400
morning they like their morning cup of

615
00:24:06,710 --> 00:24:04,400
coffee so they'll drink some coffee they

616
00:24:08,789 --> 00:24:06,720
have you know tang or orange juice to to

617
00:24:10,230 --> 00:24:08,799
drink you know various juices some apple

618
00:24:12,870 --> 00:24:10,240
juice you know cranberry juice things

619
00:24:15,190 --> 00:24:12,880
like that so uh you know kind of like

620
00:24:17,110 --> 00:24:15,200
like the food a pretty wide variety of

621
00:24:19,590 --> 00:24:17,120
drinks and one of the one of the

622
00:24:21,430 --> 00:24:19,600
interesting things about their water is

623
00:24:23,830 --> 00:24:21,440
it's all recycled

624
00:24:25,510 --> 00:24:23,840
so some of the one of the funny quotes

625
00:24:27,669 --> 00:24:25,520
that we hear is uh sometimes you're

626
00:24:28,789 --> 00:24:27,679
drinking yesterday's coffee the morning

627
00:24:29,990 --> 00:24:28,799
of today

628
00:24:31,110 --> 00:24:30,000
so they actually i mean they have a

629
00:24:33,510 --> 00:24:31,120
recycling

630
00:24:35,669 --> 00:24:33,520
system onboard the station that recycles

631
00:24:37,190 --> 00:24:35,679
human waste things like that

632
00:24:38,710 --> 00:24:37,200
expirated water

633
00:24:40,950 --> 00:24:38,720
and then turns it back into potable

634
00:24:43,190 --> 00:24:40,960
drinking water so

635
00:24:44,549 --> 00:24:43,200
but yeah lots of water lots of again a

636
00:24:48,230 --> 00:24:44,559
lot like the food a lot of drinks that

637
00:24:49,669 --> 00:24:48,240
you'd find just down here on earth

638
00:24:51,590 --> 00:24:49,679
all right well i think that's about all

639
00:24:52,870 --> 00:24:51,600
the time we have i really want to thank

640
00:24:54,549 --> 00:24:52,880
you guys for your questions hope you

641
00:24:56,549 --> 00:24:54,559
learned a little bit and hope you

642
00:25:01,269 --> 00:24:56,559
enjoyed your visit and your stop here

643
00:25:05,029 --> 00:25:02,390
oh thank you