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hi thank you patricia

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hi uh we're talking with the fifth grade

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hi kids welcome to the international

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space station flight control room i

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understand you guys have a lot of

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questions about flying in space and it's

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a good thing because today we have

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astronaut mike foreman here with us he

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is flown twice in space aboard the space

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shuttle on sts 123 and 129 welcome and

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thank you for joining us great to be

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here miko great we're ready for your

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hello my name is nicholas and my

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question is how long do astronauts stay

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in space

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that's a good question nicholas we have

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astronauts on the space station now that

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will stay six months up there

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on my two space shuttle missions i

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stayed

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in space for 16 days on the first one

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and about 11 days on the second one so i

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wasn't at the space station for as long

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as our astronauts are today but we we

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train them to go up there and live and

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work for six months at a time so it's

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kind of a long time

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hello my name is laura my question is do

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can you say that again

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do you like your career it's interesting

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oh yes i i love my career i think i have

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the best job in the world because i get

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do space walks outside the space station

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and the space shuttle and look at the

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earth from 240 miles high it's pretty

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cool it's a great job and i get to talk

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to people like you i get to relay my

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stories back to people here on the

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ground and tell them about what i did so

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it's a lot of fun so he's got the best

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job in the world and off the world

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hello my name is eric my question is

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what's the most dangerous job in nasa

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and why do you do it

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uh eric i'm not sure what the most

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dangerous job at nasa is you know

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people some people might say that

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astronauts have a dangerous job and i

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you know nasa does a really good job of

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making sure that our jobs are safe as

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possible

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we do as much as we can when we were

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flying the space shuttle we did as much

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as we can to make those vehicles safe to

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and we did a great job i think at that

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we have some really smart people here at

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nasa that take really good care of the

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astronauts so uh there's probably some

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more dangerous jobs at nasa than

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hello my name is christian my my

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question is how does the spacesuit works

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how do the spaces work

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i'm not sure i follow

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oh space suits

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yes ah okay that's a good question

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christian okay we have a couple of

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different kinds of spacesuits that we

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whether it be on the space shuttle or

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the soyuz capsule launching from russia

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to the space station our astronauts wear

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a suit that protects them in case we

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lose the pressure inside the space

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capsule or

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so those suits are are to protect us

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while we launch and when we come back

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then we wear a completely different suit

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and that's uh what we call an emu which

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stands for extra vehicular mobility unit

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big long word for a spacesuit

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but that suit is like a one-person

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spaceship because you get in that suit

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and you go outside the spaceship that

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your it came up in and it gives you

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oxygen and it keeps you cool and it

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protects you from the environment

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outside the spaceship so that's how the

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space that's the a little bit about the

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spacesuits that we wear

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you need to exercise a lot in space

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exercise a lot both down here on earth

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when we're preparing to to go to space

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because we're living in a weightless

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environment up there which means you

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know there's no gravity

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we don't get the same

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our bones don't get the same workout

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that they do down here on earth when

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exercise our muscles to keep our bones

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rebuilding themselves and make sure the

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bones stay as strong as they were when

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we left for space because we don't come

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back and have weaker bones so

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astronauts spend about two and a half

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days two and a half hours a day while

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they're in space exercising every day

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ways to do that exercise there are

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several different pieces of equipment in

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different ways to exercise they have a

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treadmill which is kind of funny because

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the treadmill you have to run on a

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treadmill but if there's no gravity you

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just float off of the treadmill but they

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have a harness that connects them down

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to the treadmill so that they don't

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float away from it while they're running

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they have an exercise bike so they can

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exercise that way and they also have

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resistive exercise device which

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is like lifting weights so they they

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an exercise device that's sort of like

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rubber bands almost you push against it

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provide the resistance that exercise

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hello my name is guadalupe and my

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spaceship with all the buttons to go at

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the right distance to the right place

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that figure out where we need to go in

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station so they figure that all out and

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they put it into the computer and the

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computer kind of knows how we get there

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see the space station then we can take

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international space station flight

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control room where the team is

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monitoring the systems avoid the space

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keep track of where they are so

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we're going in the right direction and

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we're getting to where we need to go

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control room are controlling the space

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station right now that's going around

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to to space so it's a a good thing when

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hi my name is and my question is how do

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afghanistan and iraq and we call those

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space when you return to ed

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hamburger or pizza so it's always good

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with no gravity up in space when you

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come back you first feel very heavy

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because your body's getting used to the

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gravity down here on earth again

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but that goes away pretty fast

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what doesn't go away as fast is your

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sense of balance because

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thing in our inner ear called a

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neurovestibular system and that's what

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tells us you know right now that i'm

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tipping over because there's a little

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sensor in there that sends a signal to

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my brain and tells it you know i'm i'm

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tilted but in space since there's no

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gravity for that sensor to use to tell

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it where it's where it is

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our brains don't get that signal for a

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while and we come back and then um that

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that neural vestibular system sort of

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has to turn back on

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and um takes a couple of days before our

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hello my name is ariella my question is

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how can you repair equipment in space

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well we train uh quite a bit here at

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nasa to be able to repair equipment in

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space

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and we know things are going to break

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and so we we

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take spare parts up to the space station

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to have them ready in case something

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breaks and then

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when something does break our astronauts

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can get a little refresher course from

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the ground people here in mission

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control will tell them how to repair

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what's broken and then they can fix

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things

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and we did a lot of that in my missions

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to the space shuttle on the space

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shuttle to the space station we went

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outside and repaired the space station

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and

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actually helped to build the space

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thank you

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hello my name is irma my question is do

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you have to go to college and what do

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uh to become an astronaut you do need to

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have a bachelor's degree at least from

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college

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it's even better if you have advanced

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college degrees

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so

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i went to the u.s naval academy and i

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studied aerospace engineering as an

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undergraduate and got a bachelor of

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science in that and then i went to

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further school and got a master's degree

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in aeronautical engineering and i'm also

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a test pilot

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from the navy so i've been to a lot of

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college and

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most astronauts you'll find have

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a lot of college

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in their background this takes a lot of

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training and so many people want to be

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astronauts that it's very competitive to

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become an astronaut so

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people with more education more training

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usually have a little bit of a leg up on

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well i like to look outside the window

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and see the earth down below us it's

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amazing to see the earth from that high

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up and we're going around the earth

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every 90 minutes so we're really going

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fast around the earth we're going 17 500

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miles an hour so the earth goes by

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really fast and you get to see a lot of

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different parts of the world

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just from a short look out the window

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so that's a lot of fun and of course

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since we're floating up there we can do

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somersaults and

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we can play kind of games with

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m m's and things like that so we work

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pretty hard up there but occasionally we

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have a little bit of time to

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look out the window and take a break and

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hi my name is jesus my question is is it

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true that there will in 2030 there will

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be a one-way trip to mars

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let's see

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you guys will be about uh

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probably what

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29 30 years old by then um we're hoping

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that we'll have uh a trip to mars

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planned and that will uh send people to

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mars and

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bring them back and actually start to

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explore mars have humans go there so

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maybe somebody in the room there will be

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one of the first people to go to mars

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my question is how many space shuttles

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does nasa have and how many people can

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fit

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i heard the first part is how many space

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shuttles does nasa have what was the

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second part

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how many people can fit inside one

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right now nasa has three space shuttles

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that actually went to space and then we

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have a fourth space shuttle enterprise

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that we use to um practice

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landings when we first designed the

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space shuttle they weren't sure exactly

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how it was going to come back and land

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on earth

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so they they built enterprise and that's

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what they did the practice landings in

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way back when

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so

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right now yesterday they delivered the

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space shuttle discovery to the

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smithsonian institution in washington dc

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so if you take a field trip or a

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vacation to washington dc

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you can actually go to the smithsonian

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museum and see the space shuttle

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discovery

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the space shuttle enterprise which was

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at the smithsonian is on its way to new

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york so if you ever take a trip to new

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york you'll be able to see enterprise up

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in new york in new york city

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and eventually

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the space shuttle endeavor which is the

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first one that i flew on will be uh

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transferred out to los angeles

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california to a museum out there

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so

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if your travels take you to los angeles

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eventually you'll be able to see

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endeavor which would be pretty cool for

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me because since i flew in space on that

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space shuttle i'd like to see it again

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and then finally the fourth one atlantis

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atlantis was the space shuttle i flew my

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second mission on and that space shuttle

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is going to stay down in florida at the

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kennedy space center so if you ever go

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to florida to visit the kennedy space

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center you'll be able to see atlantis

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down there so this uh

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since we're not flying these space

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shuttles anymore it's great that we're

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putting them in museums around the

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country so a lot of people will be able

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to see them and and appreciate what a

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space shuttle looks like up close

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hello my name is angel

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and my question is

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how old do you need to be

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well uh there's no minimum age for going

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to space but uh

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for

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our astronaut program typically people

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are in their 30s when they get selected

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to be an astronaut because of all the

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training that we talked about in the

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earlier question

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about college requirements

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usually people that become astronauts

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are in their 30s already and then they

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come to nasa and they might train for

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two to five years before they go to

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space so um typically astronauts that go

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to space are in their mid to late 30s

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for the first time so

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you guys have a little bit of time to

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get all of your school done and go to

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college and get some experience before

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thank you

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hello my name is crystal my question is

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why are kids not able to travel to the

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moon

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why are kids not able to travel to the

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moon crystal

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yeah

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well uh traveling in space is still

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dangerous um maybe sometime in the

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future it'll be so safe and it'll be so

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routine it'll be like getting on an

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airliner and flying from here to

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california but

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right now it's still considered fairly

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dangerous so we wouldn't

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be very uh good parents if we let our

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kids fly on a space shuttle to the moon

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or spaceship to the moon or to anywhere

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in space so

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uh that's that's the reason primary

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reason and since we can only launch a

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certain number of people into space

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we we try to get people that know how to

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work all the experiments and have a lot

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of training first so um

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it'll be a while before we probably

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start sending kids to space

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and i've got another answer for that and

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it is because kids need to stay in

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school and if you stay in school that'll

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hello my name is

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tanya my question is who was the first

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man

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on the

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neil armstrong you know where neil

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armstrong grew up in ohio and you know

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where i grew up i grew up in ohio

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so neil armstrong was one of my

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neil armstrong was one of my heroes when

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i was a kid growing up in ohio that's

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hello my name is

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hi this is patricia at um in the digital

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learning network can you guys hear me

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yeah

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okay

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all right looks like we lost the audio

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we lost the the picture from from

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mission control

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all right so it looks appears as though

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they may have to cut out a little early

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hold on just a second and i'm gonna see

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hi kids

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public affairs officer with astronaut

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mike foreman in the international space

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station flight control room can you hear

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us

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yes

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here we go okay do we have another

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question

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what do you study at nasa and what kinds

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of things do you do there

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what what do i do

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in my job here at nasa

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yes

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well uh aside from training to fly to

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space i also have a job here on the

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ground when i'm not training

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and right now i'll just give you a

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little bit of background nasa is working

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with some companies in the united states

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to help them build the next rocket that

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is going to take our astronauts to the

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space station because right now the guys

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that are up on the space station got

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there

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on a russian rocket and russia is the

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only country that has a rocket that can

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take our astronauts to the space station

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and we would like to have a rocket from

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the united states to do that job as well

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so we're working with companies in the

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united states to help them build a new

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rocket and

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i work with a company called boeing

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boeing is one of the competitors that

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was working on a new rocket and so i

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helped boeing by providing them some of

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my background and experience here at

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nasa to help them build the next rocket

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to take our astronauts to the space

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station so even that is a really cool

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job i really like that i enjoy spending

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time with

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all the smart people at boeing and

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listening to them as they work to design

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the next rocket to take our astronauts

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thank you

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all right that is all of our planned

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questions i know one other student did

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have a question that you would like to

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ask is that okay

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my name is eliza my question is um

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have you ever been in a meteor shower

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well uh

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sort of uh in space um

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sometimes you see more meteors coming

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through our atmosphere upper atmosphere

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it seems like then then when we're down

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here on earth maybe because we're up

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there and we're looking out the window

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more and we see uh we see them

570
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but i can also tell you that

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since i've been outside the space

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station doing space walks and the space

573
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station is mostly made of metal

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you see a lot of little little uh pit

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marks little little dents in the outside

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of the space station from where micro

577
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meteorites have hit

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so

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we know that there's a lot of things up

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there that come back and actually hit

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the space station on the outside they're

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they're really tiny but they're going

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really fast so they make a little mark

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so

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yes i've been inside a meteor shower i

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guess by living in the space station for

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good questions and i think that is all

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the time we have today we really

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appreciate you guys we're glad you were

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able to come and join us here in the

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international space station flight

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control room again thank you mike for

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coming you heard it here this the best

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job in the world and off the world so

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study hard thank you teachers and eat

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your veggies this is mission control