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station this is houston are you ready

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we are ready for the event

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destination imagination this is mission

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control houston please call station for

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a voice check houston

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station this is britt dyer how do you

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what is the one what are you allowed to

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take with you to space and what is the

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one thing that you wish that you are

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oh the one thing i wish i would have

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taken would have been some filter

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materials for helping take pictures out

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well the our spacesuit is really like a

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almost like a spaceship because when

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we're in our spacesuit we have to live

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just like we do inside either the space

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station or the uh the soyuz that we come

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so everything is important i hate to

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give you that answer but we need to have

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oxygen we need to be able to stay warm

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we need to be able to scrub out the co2

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so really it's a it's a whole big

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machine and all of it's necessary to

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andre how do you do your laundry

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sean aston a short answer

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we do not actually we don't wash our

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clothes because water is very precious

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and so we don't have any washing machine

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so what we do we wear it and uh yeah if

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it's if it's dirty then we have to to

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don can you have pets on the space

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can you have pets on space station if

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you consider some of the creatures we

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have for experiments pets than we do

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and these drosophila larvae i don't know

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what you call them a pet but these

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drosophila larvae were there for food

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and i don't really know whether you'd

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so so i guess we really don't have pets

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joe

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can you take a shower in space and how

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do you keep and how do you keep the soap

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see life is good on the space station we

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don't have to do laundry and we don't

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have to take showers so no we don't take

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showers up here because like you said

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the water would just float away it would

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be a big mess and like andre mentioned

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earlier water is very precious so we

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have washcloths that we can get wet and

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soap and shampoo that we can put in our

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hair and our body but no nice long hot

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andrei how do you stay connected to your

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and the ground and other people and

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friends

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normal uh telephone we have fire the

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satellite i can call the normal

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telephone network and then i can call

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anybody in the world if you have contact

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a video connection so i can also see

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my children and that is very nice of

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mars meteorites that have evidence of

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microbial life so if this

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a life outside of earth particularly in

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we're not sure about this yet but uh it

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investigation that's going on in terms

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of looking for life on space station

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which may contain meteorites that

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signs of life on space station except

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inside the spacecraft when i'm looking

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joe how do you go to the bathroom in

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that's a good question

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you have to be very very careful um it's

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it can catch things we have a tube

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to urinate in and it's kind of neat

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but the the best way the normal way to

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area in science in technology and those

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don since you can't go grocery shopping

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pantries and this happened during our

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expedition where for a month we had to

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live on half rations in order to save

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and now we've got plenty of food but at

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that time we were we're conserving food

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for the future and this is what happens

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joe how did you get into space and how

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little over eight minutes so we launched

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in uh in kazakhstan and then eight

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floating but then it takes us another

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two days to get to the international

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okay why did you choose to become an

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books that i got from my grandmother and

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aliens and things like that

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movies from the shuttle flights and i

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earth from outer space

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doctor and then i thought okay this is

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exciting it's beautiful and it's very

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useful so that's one of the main reasons

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don what do you do if someone gets

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if someone gets really sick which

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our medical kits that we have on station

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for joe who came up with the idea for

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the space station and who decides what

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international space station like it

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different countries and so i don't know

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with the idea but coming to space is

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very very difficult and it's very

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expensive so it made sense for us to

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pull our resources together and work as

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one planet to build the space station

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review boards that look at that so

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there's a long process the scientists

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ceiling and and so it it it keeps you in

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of that spacesuit one of the first

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or hoses running from earth to the space

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example and still we have we have our

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water in hydrogen and oxygen so we have

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engine room on a ship and a gymnasium

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sense when you're in the vacuum of space

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for joe are your thoughts and feelings

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feelings are about the same

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you know the the same emotions that you

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have on earth you have here and then

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your sense if you you know cut yourself

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but your thoughts they have to be a

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little bit different because now we're

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in an environment without gravity that

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of course we've lived our whole lives

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with gravity and so you think one way

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when you set the glass down it's going

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to stay there if i want to go from one

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place to another i have to walk where

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now we float from one place to another

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stick it to the wall otherwise it'll

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float away so a lot of those minor

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thoughts and things that we do every day

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joe don and andre on behalf of

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destination imagination and philadelphia

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university we can't thank you enough for

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it was a pleasure

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station this is houston acr thank you

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thank you destination imagination