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aquarius this is charlie bolden how do

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you read

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administrator charlie

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this is donnie metcalf lindenberger i

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read you loud and clear

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don't be so formal there daddy how are

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you and tim doing how are you doing

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well

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we've been enjoying the most magnificent

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week here at

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the aquarius habitat 47 feet below sea

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level

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this is timothy peak from the european

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space agency

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and i just want to take a moment

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this week has been really special it's

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been about 12 days

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and we've always shared a quote and my

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quote earlier this week was from ralph

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waldo emerson who said

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do not go where the path may lead go

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instead where there is no past and leave

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a trail

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50 years ago scott carpenter

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flew in space as the second american to

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circle the world

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and three years later

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he lived 28

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at the sea

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the first

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an astronaut

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and an aquanaut

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he blazed a trail

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that has led many

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including myself

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to live both in space and below the

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i just wanted to say that i am honored

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to have had a chance to follow in his

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trail

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but this would not at all have been

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without an amazing team and that's

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something else that we've been talking a

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lot about the last few days

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so while tim and i are outside here

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and our habitat technician james talisek

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is outside with us

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inside the habitat

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around our state

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you will find my other team members

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we have steve flyers from cornell

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we have kimia yui from the japanese

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space agency and we have justin brown

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who is our other

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habitat technician

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they're looking out the window but you

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can probably see from the camera inside

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the habitat

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the rest of the team that's been topside

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that has supported us

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either at the mobile mission control

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center

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or supported us with divers

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or brought in the liberty star and

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helped us splash submersibles

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or provided us with all of our daily

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that is the whole team that has pulled

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off nemo 16.

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so it's just been a real honor to be

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here and i'd like to turn it over to you

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to ask some questions

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hey daddy i don't know whether i have

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any questions or not you know you it's a

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great introduction to your whole team

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there and i'm glad you gave me an

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opportunity uh to go inside uh aquarius

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because i was gonna ask you how steve

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you know we let him go from his

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chairmanship of the of the nasa advisory

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committee council for uh for just a

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little while to do this work so

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hopefully he's pulling his share of the

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oh my goodness i can't tell you how much

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it has been a pleasure to work with

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i remember when i was a high school

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teacher back in vancouver washington

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and when spirit and opportunity rick

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smart and i watched steve's team

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share with excitement

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and he has shared so much about what

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spirit and opportunity have been able to

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deposits on mars and steve was sharing

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today was maybe

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one of his favorite days although his

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favorite change of course been with the

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submersibles because we have done some

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great science off of the submersibles

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but uh today we had an opportunity to

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explore using a lot of the different

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tools we have our jet pack

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we have translation lines we have all

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these different ways to collect science

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and uh he really led us today with that

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so thanks for sharing him with us and

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letting him get a little bit away from

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his uh regular job

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well good hey tim i you know i know um

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you're down there and this is your your

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first uh experience doing this kind of

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stuff and i understand you all have been

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really learning a lot about translation

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about using tools and the like that that

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have you found the ability to get around

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down there compared to say your ability

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to get around in a 1g environment of

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that's right minnesota it's been an

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i'm really glad that the uh

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the european space agency is sending

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astronauts now to take part in nemo and

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long may that continue it's been a

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fantastic mission

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and as i say a real privilege to be here

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and uh the translation techniques that

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we've been using have been uh really

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eye-opening

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in fact just just this afternoon dorothy

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and myself we're really challenging

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ourselves not by taking necessarily the

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easiest or most efficient route

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but by doing some other strange things

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using translation lines and booms with

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our jet packs using jetpacks to carry

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booms from point a to point b and

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actually deploying our own translation

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line over these asteroid surfaces uh to

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try out those methods

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and we've had a fantastic mission we've

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accomplished all of the objectives and

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we've really collected a load of great

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and uh i'm really looking forward to

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seeing the results of that data and to

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uh seeing

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what the fruits of our labor will

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produce in the years to come and it's

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just tremendously exciting

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to be involved in a project that is

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dealing with man's next space

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exploration mission the anglo-earth

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fantastic daddy i know you know i know

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this is the second mission uh on nemo

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where we've looked at at uh visiting an

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shuttle and roaming around station

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um how do you find that that life on

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both places that i have had a chance to

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land you are go go go

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and uh over these last few days we have

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the go go go from six o'clock in the

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morning till late at night

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but uh it's just such a pleasure to do

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all that work so that part compares with

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this we were taught about the redundant

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experienced those redundant systems when

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ac power went down

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station with all of our power

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redundancies our ways to provide oxygen

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fantastic hey tim uh you know i i

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understand that that they're introducing

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a 50 second or some some time lag and

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communication such that there's a

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significant time between when someone

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communicates with you all and when you

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actually hear it and then going back the

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was it very difficult to adjust to that

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at first or have you adjusted you've

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still difficult getting used to

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communicating that way with such a

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time delay we've kind of fallen into a

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rooting ops and that tends to work

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scenarios and i think that's where we

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greater time delays that we stimulated

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that we'll clearly need to address um

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but it was very interesting to be uh to

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be involved in those emergency scenarios

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we've also had the 50 to second delay

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for our friends and family

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it hasn't had as big an impact as i

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thought it was going to so really i

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fantastic hey daddy you know you you

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started out by talking about

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your nostalgia

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remembering back to to when scott

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carpenter and john glenn were the first

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two americans to orbit earth and and uh

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saluting scott but

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40th anniversary of title ix

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which uh was the act that actually made

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to uh more in energetically get into the

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fields of science and engineering by

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in in colleges and universities most

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people think about it all the time with

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respect to athletics but it also opened

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new avenues for women you're an

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incredible role model for my three

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granddaughters and um hopefully they're

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gonna they're gonna watch this as we

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replay it and maybe

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glad that title ix came along

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because of her strengths that um

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i was interested in math and science and

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struggles but

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in my generation i was able to study

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science and and never have to deal with

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those uh face the same struggles and i

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an athlete in college and run on both

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the cross country and track team and

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compete there

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and my daughter who is just now five and

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is probably also watching with your

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believes that she can do whatever she

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wants and knows no boundaries and i am

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so proud of her

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and i'm so thankful for all that lived

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so uh i uh i'm really glad that all

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those people took risk you know

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again that thinking back like i said

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with the nostalgia to before the world

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continues to change

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we chase because we help each other

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we're an international community

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and we are all different people that

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bring different strengths to the table

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and this is all possible because we

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believe in our own dreams so

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thanks for bringing that up

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oh great hey you know i know you all

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need to get back to work but um can the

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can they i know they can hear me but can

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they talk steve or

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uh can any of them talk in there

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to me i don't know if they're myself are

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they myself in there

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i know i do i do hey uh a tim final

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question i have for you is you know

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now that you've been through this stuff

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for 10 days i know you got you're coming

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home on friday but or coming to the

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surface on friday um does what you've

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been doing for all this period of time

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does it based on what you imagined a

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mission to an asteroid would be like

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since we haven't done that yet do you

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see you see this training as realistic

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is it is it something that that you find

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beneficial and and uh add some realism

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your thoughts about what it will really

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be like when you get to go to an

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it's been an incredibly realistic

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mission yes absolutely um

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i was lucky enough to do a caves mission

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last september with a european space

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agency and that was uh what i thought at

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the time was a good analog for the space

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i don't think you can beat aquarius on

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what we've been doing down here as far

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as the space analog is concerned

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it's the next best thing to uh to

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actually going into space uh i would

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imagine being down here and isolated as

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a crew working together for a long

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period of time

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being able to do the neutral buoyancy

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tasks that we've done and also being

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involved with the submersibles and

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having the ability to bring you know big

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pieces of machinery down here deep

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workers submersibles working with real

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rocks real sediments

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it's been a fantastic simulation

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scenario and a tremendous mission and i

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think i have gained a huge amount

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i've learned a lot about myself and i've

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learned a lot about my my crewmates

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we've had a great time got on really

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and it's just been a tremendous

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experience all round one that i i will

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treasure and i will learn an awful lot

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from and hopefully take that forward

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well i i tell you um i just think it's

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tremendous this international crew we

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have up there down there i started to

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say up there uh camilla there i know you

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can't answer uh you in the in the module

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and steve

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uh representing cornell university very

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well dottie and tim uh thanks so much

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for letting me intrude upon your time

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down there and uh i'll let you go back

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to work right now but but thanks so much

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for sharing your time with us and and

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sharing your experiences with uh with

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the hopefully the public around the

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world will have an opportunity to see

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this

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well like i said charlie it has been a

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real pleasure speaking with you and

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thanks so much for coming down and

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talking with us today through the

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fantastic i look forward to getting

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you would love it it's fantastic

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okay well this is this is charlie bolden

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in in washington dc out so thanks very