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well greetings everybody welcome to

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Mission Control Houston this is the

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International Space Station's flight

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control room this is basically the nerve

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center for all the activities that go on

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aboard the International Space Station

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so a team of flight controllers here

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looks over all the systems around the

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clock of the crew members that are

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onboard the International Space Station

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and each one of the positions in here

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monitors systems different systems to

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make sure they're operating well aboard

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the complex so we're real happy to have

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you guys in Pennsylvania at the Corpus

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Christi school join us today here in

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Mission Control and also we have an

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expert in one of those systems joining

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us Jeff baisley Jeff is an expert in

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basically all of the systems associated

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with the environmental control the

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life-support systems aboard the station

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so welcome to Pennsylvania and also

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welcome Jeff thanks for joining us and

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we're ready to go my name is Carson what

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are some of the decisions the flight

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director has to make that's probably a

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good one for Jesse because he works

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directly with a flight director all the

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time yes the flight director does have a

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very important job here as you know the

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deploy treacherous Canada the boss when

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when were in here one of the big things

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that he monitors is actually the timing

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of everything that happens on board

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space station so his job is to make sure

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that we're meeting the objectives of the

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day sometimes you have to prioritize

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things we never like when things go

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wrong but you know definitely sometimes

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maintenance doesn't go right and so then

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we need to reshuffle everything and make

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sure everything's correct and of course

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you know he's in charge if we get into a

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bind with activities on the system sign

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my name is Max and what do you think is

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the most important role in Mission

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Control and why ours yeah that's a great

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question you know Michigan towards a

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team so it's hard to pick one wall but

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in you know I'm a little biased but I

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think the systems controllers are the

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ones that have the most important job so

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of course we have all the different

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systems on board the thermal control

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power as you control my system life

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support I've also got that command data

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handling and a way to communicate with

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the vehicle there's also the ground

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controller who kind of makes sure that

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everything works from vehicle down here

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and so do everybody on that Lister here

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24 7 365 and sort of very important to

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operations my name is Brent and do you

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think we'll have another habitat up and

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running before the ISS program is over

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and that's a very good question you know

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definitely something that would thinking

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about here different habitats I know

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that the ISS is definitely a big

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promoter of going forward to creating

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new habitats it's a lot of systems on

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board that we're testing you know

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especially in my system life support you

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know we have a lot of water systems a

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lot of every generation systems until by

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testing them in low Earth or low Earth

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orbit while we can actually fix things

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but before we go farther it's definitely

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a big priority and making sure that we

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hi my name is Spencer working in Mission

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Control must be stressful what do you do

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to help relieve your stress yeah that's

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a great question you know it did ours

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definitely play on us a lot as i

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mentioned system controllers will hit

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all the time but you know different

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ships and the night ships are

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particularly top one but two kind of

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relieve some of that stress you know a

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lot of people do exercise so I know

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people my group some of them when

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marathons so they definitely i love to

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exercise as a big thing it just making

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sure that you have an activity outside

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of work that that you can do that it's

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important and you can look forward to

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after work so for me I'm on a k-9 search

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team I with my dog and so we get to go

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out and do light raining and go out and

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do things and definitely something I

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look forward you added work I think yeah

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I think having a balanced lifestyle even

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for you guys you know when you're when

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you're done with school every day you

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you you certainly don't think about

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school all the time but you do your

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homework and those type of things the

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same thing for folks in here is you know

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we when you get off work you you try to

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get away from work for a little while

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and and unwind and then regroup for the

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next day that's a great question hi I'm

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an eclair um what was your most exciting

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moment in Mission Control well there's

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lots of exciting moments here I know

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personally for me one at most one

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exciting one towards actually working

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contour for the first time you know the

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way that we train we start in the back

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room so not here in the vicar but in the

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back room and so sending your first

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command at a real vehicle it's quite a

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quite an exciting moment as you have

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printed out my desk their first command

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that sent to the space station another

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exciting thing for me which working my

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first shuttle mission here in the front

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room so I woke sts-134 that's the last

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flight of endeavor and I actually worked

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you over one shift which is the shift

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where the shuttle we talking so he's

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cool you know looking up on the big

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board and seeing seeing the shuttle come

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last time for endeavor and you know

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watching all that it's definitely a

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surreal surreal feeling help you hi my

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name is Clara and I would like to know

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what is Capcom's most important job that

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they need to do okay capcom is noah is

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the only one that talks directly to the

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crew on a day-to-day basis so one of the

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most important jobs is actually

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translating with what i tell them into

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couche speak so you know we talk on the

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loops with lots of acronyms lots of

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system issues that were working and then

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so the crew we only talk to the crew

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once about a certain issue but also

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making sure that it's clear it's clear

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for the crew you know sometimes

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sometimes we put out a lot of words and

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they make sense to us but it may not

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make sense take crew so that's

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most important job hi I'm mmm hour and

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my question is does Mission Control

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control everything or just control

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something's rd control nothing or do you

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just in monitor all of the time that's a

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on up in space and I think their crew

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relies heavily on that and then Jesse

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in massillon that you know we send

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thousands of commands every day the

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space station between us here as well as

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well about international partners around

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the world and so those those commands

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controller systems also in marshall

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space flight center at they say they

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send commands to do to payload

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operations so the advantage of doing

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that from the ground is it frees up the

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crew to do other activities that we

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payloads they did change out payloads

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their hands on the hardware and fix it

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to get more tasks done it's a great

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is the isos going to be in space that's

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now we will approve to go through 2020

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so that's in eight years now however

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long long pole and that is obviously the

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structure itself so I assess first flew

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systems on board and the structure

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seeing how much much and we still have

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to be able to get that far and of course

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all the auto spare parts you know we

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things do fail so all the spare parts on

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board is important hi my name is

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Madeline cardinale what kind of

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qualities and previous experiences do

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you have that you feel really benefit

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your career working in Mission Control

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chemical engineer so I received my

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bachelor's in chemical engineering and

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so an engineering math science

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background is very important to working

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here there's also the seller qualities

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never never taking what's told to you

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understand the why and the what what is

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going on you know look at look deeper

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and that's all all on our own accord so

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definitely you need to be forward

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thinking in always asking what's the

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next thing and delving deeper on your

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own into whatever you're looking at so

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school you know definitely trying to

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hi my name is Patrick and my question is

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who started Mission Control in what year

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was it that's that's a good question

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very first mission control was not even

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first United space astronauts were

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launched and then there was a decision

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made to build this facility this of

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course this room has been changed from

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what it was in the early of Gemini days

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Jim and I was when two astronauts flew

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on capsules and that was when it first

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opened it was back in this room back in

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1964-65 time frame during the early days

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before we even went to the moon and it's

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shuttle and then now most recently to

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the room that you see here which is much

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more modernized with better technology

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in terms of the consoles and human

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factors were involved in that right

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Jesse that you know they took that into

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account because they knew that flight

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controllers would be in here for long

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periods of time as opposed to what they

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were you know back in early days for

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long missions like this space station

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also looking forward so we have in

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testing right now the next mission

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control so what that's going to look

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like for the Hawaiian project and you

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know that's definitely continuing to

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modernize the system but also the human

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factors part of it and you know we've

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learned things here and pick the one

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that you know we we can improve on and

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so when proven knows it definitely

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changed over the years and it's amazing

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to look at the pictures around here what

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what it used to look like and what it

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now looks like yeah great question it is

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a great question hi my name is Elizabeth

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and what do you think is the coolest

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feature on the ISS the coolest feature

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well I I definitely say from from the

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cruise perspective it's the cupola so

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the cupola is basically a bay of windows

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basis the earth so you probably seen a

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lot of the really cool pictures that

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they've sent down also the cool video

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from sunrise sunset during the day even

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during the night they taken video of

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night passes and so it's definitely cool

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looking out the window my perspective

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I'm a systems guy so I have interesting

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interesting modules for systems but

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that's obviously not something that

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other people find interesting hi my name

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is Kira and my question is about how

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many times a day does Mission Control

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lose connection with the ISS that's

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actually a great question we have an

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area called the zone of exclusion and

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that's usually about every 90 minutes a

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day we lose comet a vehicle it's used

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about 10 minutes long that gives us time

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to take a break while what a coup

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continues the interesting thing is that

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we can close that gap if we need to so

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usually doing critical ops so say

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vehicles coming robotics ebas things

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like that we we can ask the network to

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give us more time and so at that time we

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usually have all the time that we want

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but we still have what's called a hand

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over time which is about 20 seconds

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where our antennas need to go from one

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angle to another to pick up another

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satellite so those those are actually

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hello my name is Ana Carmina how do you

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get the medications to the astronauts

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that's that's a great question the

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obviously de medication is provided via

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visiting vehicle so it's on board we

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don't in real time extend it to them we

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do have a console called a surgeon

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console they there's a flight surgeon

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for the cruise so they they know the

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crew they've worked with the crew for

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many years as they've gone to training

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and so they they know what the crew

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needs four different different ailments

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that they they might face on board hi my

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name is Carrie Oh what kind of

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experiences have you had in Mission

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Control well as I already mentioned you

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know I have to the I did come in in time

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to work a few shuttle flights as a ISS

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support I you know biggest thing is and

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now it's just increment operations so I

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get to I get to support you should about

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one week every couple months that you

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know I come in here and work with the

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crew and also as increment lead as a the

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increment lead for the last crew before

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Dan Burbank came home that is a lot of

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planning that goes into each of these

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flights and so it is definitely an

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experience that you get to do when you

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come here hi my name is Lauren how many

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how has machine control changed over the

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years that is a good question yeah

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that's kind of what we were talking

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about earlier so it's it's changed quite

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a bit from over the years from the early

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days of Apollo even before that to what

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you're looking at now right yeah the

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interesting thing is a right above us is

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called picker to which is the old Apollo

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picker and that's preserved it's a

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historical site and so you get to get to

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take a view of what it used to look like

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and this room actually looked exactly

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like that before he's transition over to

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space station and even space station

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we've had to fly control room so we used

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to be in what's called blue picker

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before we outgrew that the station got

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bigger and then we transition over here

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yeah the Mission Control Center is very

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very large you're looking at one room

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but there's a flight control room like

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Jessie said above us there's one down

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the hall that was used for space shuttle

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and we'll probably transition to a

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future spacecraft like Orion that Jessie

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mentioned the next generation of human

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space transport that the NASA's helping

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develop or is developing so it's a very

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big building that houses very different

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kinds of flight control depending on

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what actually is going on and of course

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if there's training going on for another

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mission right you do you're always doing

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simulations for future flights as well

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yeah I'm actually in training to learn

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another system so I'm learning our

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internal thermal control system so it

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Joey evolving you get to grow and learn

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more things as you go to your career see

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here's a good example of somebody who's

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continuing to learn even though he's

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already out of school so you guys can

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how did oh ryan well how will you get a

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Ryan into space that's that's a good

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question there's two vehicles right now

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that we're working on so the original

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lines so the first couple flights i

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believe well i should be flown on a

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commercial vehicle that's rd Atlas

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launch vehicle as it transitions we're

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going to go to what's called the Space

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Launch System shuttle drive uses shuttle

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hardware and it's a new vehicle that

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allow us to go farther that's about the

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size of believe over 75 so it's a very

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what would you do if an astronaut um was

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like life-threatening sick yeah that

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that's always that's actually something

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that we that we are we have plans for

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you know that on board the crew does

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have two of the return vehicles the call

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the Soyuz the Russian vehicle and you

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know if we had a crew member get

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critically oh we can always bring them

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home and land in Russia and get them to

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mobile medical support of course his

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crewmates would need to come home with

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him because then we don't want to leave

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them with no escape vehicle so we do

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have that plan and we can execute it if

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if we need to do luckily we've never

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gotten there yet all right how many

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times does the I as s go around the

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world in a day I that's a good question

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the ice SSU orbits the earth every 90 90

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minutes which I believe that equates

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your 15 orbits in a day something about

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that and so we we track it and you know

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every day they did go around the earth

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every 90 minutes to get the sunrise and

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sunset so it's definitely different than

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what you have on the ground here the

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space station is traveling about 17,000

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miles per hour so that's about for you

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guys it's about five miles every second

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so it travels very fast at what's known

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as orbital velocity and and it's about

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250 miles above the earth right now so

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as Jesse said do you know once every

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hour and a half its it goes all the way

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hi my name is Mara and I was wondering

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how someone got assigned to a council in

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Mission Control well that's a great

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question you know I came in I was

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actually hired as an eClass so life

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support officer it used to be that you'd

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be hired within that group so specific I

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towards the specific console now we've

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actually transitioned more towards

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generic systems controllers so you when

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you get hired in here you get to

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experience each two different groups and

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basically provide your recommendation of

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what what coop you want to work for and

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you know sometimes that's not always

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possible but you know we definitely like

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to allow people to have the opportunity

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to work for whatever position they want

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which there's lots of them here that's a

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good question hi my name is Liam and I

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wanted to know what's the hardest task

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you ever had to face the hardest task

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I've ever had to face you know they

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stimulated tasks which we always get get

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put through the wringer and a simulation

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but I think in real time I think the

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hardest thing I had to do was actually

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come in I was an on call for a plight

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that we had rushing computer problems

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that caused the rapid depress to be

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enunciated on board and it was actually

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while the crew was in what we call

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campout so they were in the air lock

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down at 10 2 psi and so I was asked to

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come in to help the young console team

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basically we can figure all systems

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after that and the challenge there was

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the mixed config we were in because as I

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mentioned accrued ways that tend to an

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airlock I saw there were a lot of

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different things we had to consider and

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um will there be other I mean have there

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been thoughts about other is esas around

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orbiting other planets I believe they

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actually has been there currently talks

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about putting one I think it past a moon

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there's a gravity gradient spot that

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actually works for putting a space

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station there it actually provide

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basically destination for the Orion on

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its way to deep space as far as the ISS

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hardware I don't believe is actually any

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plan for a similar to D ISS there'd be

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an advanced version of the space station

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that's the beauty about the space

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station that we have now is that we're

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learning how to live long duration time

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periods at this altitude because when we

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go out further out obviously it means

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it's going to take longer to get back so

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you need to you definitely need to know

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how to live for long-duration stays in

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space because you your trip will become

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much longer and that's that's one of the

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things we're doing at the International

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Space Station right now so those are

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great questions and we really enjoyed

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visiting with everybody today in

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Pennsylvania and you guys keep studying

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hard and hopefully you'll make your way

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right here to this room and join jesse

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along with other flight controllers as

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part of the team here in Mission Control

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so thanks a lot for joining us everybody