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station this is the american geophysical

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a station we hear you loud and clear

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welcome aboard

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thank you and good afternoon station and

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on behalf of our agu members worldwide

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thank you for taking the time to speak

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with us our first question is for andre

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andre before launching to the station in

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november you said that working aboard

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the international space station is like

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quote standing with our toes in an ocean

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that's still to be discovered

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can you tell us more about what you

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meant by that and how your perspective

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first of all the perspective didn't

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really change i still think that there's

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so much more to discover

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what i meant with standing with our toes

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in the water

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i don't know from whom the original

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quote was is that

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we're only at the beginning of of

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discovery uh discovery of the universe

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uh it's like like the whole ocean that

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is there to to uh to discover and you're

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only standing with your toes in the

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water so you still have to go with your

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feet your legs and uh all the way to uh

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to great depths and we do we will do the

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same thing with the universe and uh i

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i'm very privileged that i can be part

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of this first little step into the water

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joe

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with the peace corps and teaching middle

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can you tell us how your space flights

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have affected your perspective on the

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yeah when you uh when you come up to

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space and you look back at the earth

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it's a it's just a beautiful sight

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and you have a chance to for the first

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time really to look at the big picture

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and a lot of what we do in geology is we

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look at small pieces and try to build

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together a bigger map and so from space

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we get to see that

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and you get to see the atmosphere you

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see how different parts of the earth

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interact with each other

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and so the importance of protecting the

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planet is very very evident from space

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and so i'm really glad to see that and

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and i go talk to students in the

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classroom it's really easy now to give

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them my perspective and to show them

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pictures to show how fragile the planet

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is and how much we need to do to protect

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dawn you've shot some amazing videos and

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photos during your three missions in

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have you perceived the changes of the

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and what have you seen that has

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change that i've seen over earth is the

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uh the number of lights city lights at

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so human beings are expanding and and we

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and in the process turn on their lights

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this is a question for any of you

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we're expecting a solar maximum next

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that it inflates the atmosphere and it

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extends up to a higher uh altitude and

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so uh so so that's one aspect of a solar

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outstanding displays of aurora and there

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astronauts would receive in a low-earth

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this is another question for any of you

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that i just look out the window even at

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night sometimes and i recognize the the

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the tiangong-1 space lab module what do

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gradient of human beings going into

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space is moving in the right direction

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we we need to change these numbers so

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that more and more human beings can call

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space their home and we can expand off a

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planet earth and move out into our solar

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system so this is a step in the right

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direction and the more uh entities

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space teach you lessons that can be used

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what lessons have you learned on the

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station that will you will use back on

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never pass up a chance to eat a pouch of

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lessons you learn lessons about yourself

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how things move and operate around you

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conservation of angular momentum uh i

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that included the line your last day on

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earth what would you do

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it makes us think of a bigger picture

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quiet moments on the station or when

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and and the title of this one is last

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the other crewmates are off doing

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something else and you have a chance to

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very lucky to be here it's an honor and

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beautiful our planet is and how much

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that moment and what we can do we can

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planet uh with limited resources

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that that i can bring back home

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thank you all very much for your time

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and wonderful answers and on behalf of

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all the agu andre and don we wish you a

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thanks for coming aboard and uh we'll

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a station this is houston acr that

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part of the event please stand by for a

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hi nasa can you hear me

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station we can hear you

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great can you hear me

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we hear you loud and clear

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5 25 straight up here we go three

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business network and it also changes the

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way staples such as the international

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private companies taking over for

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governments doing what you do

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i'll start with joe but i want everybody

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to answer it in succession don and andre

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pick right up on it what's the

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difference been in working with private

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companies and what do you think it means

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well it's been a pleasure working with

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spacex on their first mission to the

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international space station

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um i think it's a it's a great step in

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the right direction it means a lot for

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where we're going in the future if we

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can have private organizations helping

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us get to low earth orbit to do the

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science that we're doing here it really

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frees nasa up to do some bigger and

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greater things further away from earth

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so i think it's a great step in the

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and i think in space flight is not much

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different than what we have seen of

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course

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on earth be it in in shipping or of

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course in aviation the first steps the

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difficult steps the investments are done

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by governments and then companies take

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over and

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the same thing will happen in space

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flight be it

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cargo transportation or tourism so it's

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and private companies don't

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seem to be able to do things in a little

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more relaxed nature just in terms of of

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looking at their their mission control

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and and and how how they are are

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conducting themselves it it it's

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interesting to note the difference

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between the nasa mission control and the

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the spacex mission control just as an

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example yeah let me stick with uh don

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because i know you guys are passing

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along the microphone there and and ask

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the following question because there

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were a number of interesting

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observations that i heard from all three

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of you there that there weren't huge

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differences but it was more as nonsense

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more relaxed compared to what we've seen

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um in the past so with that let me get

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to the original point that was made

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about the science that you guys are

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doing up there if someone says hey

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governments not only the united states

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but europe and all the other governments

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are are spending so much money and now

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private companies are spending so much

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money on space exploration justify it

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for us why is it still worth it and what

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are you doing that will help us here up

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yeah you have to remember that exploring

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space

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is not just about doing science science

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is part of exploring space uh

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exploration is a social endeavor that

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that a a society a government with their

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people decide to do and and with that

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will reap long-term benefits and history

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shows this you look at the countries

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that did transoceanic exploration in

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the 16th 17th and 18th century and and

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they basically defined the map of the

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world at that point in time and the same

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thing's going to happen with space and

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and the

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countries that decide to participate in

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exploration of space will be the same as

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the countries that tried that that

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participated in the trans-oceanic

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exploration they will be the ones that

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define the meaning of this epic in time