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station this is houston are you ready

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houston we are ready for the event

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houston chronicle this mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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station this is the houston chronicle

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houston chronicle space station here we

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hear you loud and clear

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well

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have you here

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thank you uh i know andre and don are

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going to be coming home

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in the not too distant future and i want

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to tell you guys it was 105 in houston

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this week how much are you looking

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it's it's a nice

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21 degrees centigrade up here and it's

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been been that way ever since we showed

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up so so we're living in an isothermal

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yeah it's so it's a constant temperature

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pretty much there there are some

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locations that are hotter by a few

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degrees and some locations that are

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cooler by a few degrees but pretty much

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it's isothermal which sounds nice but

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when you're used to temperature swings

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having having a a bit of cold or a bit

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of hot or a bit of medium

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when the temperatures are the same every

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single day uh day in day out uh it it's

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it's a different kind of a sensation

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yeah what other things like that have

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that uh after a while uh microgravity

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if i have a pen floating in front of me

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i think well this is strange this pen is

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floating so even after 190 days

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the fact that that we float because

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we're so used to fix things

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things so i'm so used to fixing things

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fixing myself that uh now and then when

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i see something floating i think well

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this is very special actually

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that's that's interesting um so down

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about possibly adding another astronaut

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side and i'll be alone here shortly uh

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when these two gentlemen take off on

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saturday but uh if they want to send a

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soyuz would there be would there be the

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fantastic and uh it's it's you try and

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such a nice picture but uh there are

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well yes uh don i saw some amazing time

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lapse photography by don um most of this

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very very great moment for for everybody

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the space station it's a wonderful place

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of the event please stand by for a voice

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station this is national public radio

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npr we hear you loud and clear

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i hear you guys loud and clear too it's

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so expedition 31 flight engineers joe

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acaba andre kuipers and don pettit

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thanks for talking to us from space

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today don pettit and andre kuipers

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you've been there i think about six

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so that's a long period but there's so

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don better walk us through uh how you'll

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we we will get in our soyuz spacecraft

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engineer one and or board engineer one

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starting off with undocking well we we

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and and what this does is it keeps the

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lower part of your body from getting

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bloated with all the water running

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downhill

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after after we've returned to earth so

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so it has a medical purpose to it

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not your everyday spanx i guess

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um joe acaba andre kuipers you've been

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studying the human condition in space

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have you found any differences in how

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well i think there's a lot of different

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things that happened to us while we're

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up here of course you're all familiar

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with the the fluid shift and when you

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say astronauts have big heads it's

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really uh it's a physical uh feature

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that we have while we're up here

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um

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but the body it's amazing to me i've

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been here for about a month now how

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quickly you do adapt to being up in

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space and after just a few days it's

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just a natural environment to be in

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really what about your senses do you do

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you find that when you drop things you

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still look down or do you acclimate to

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well we get used to it but it's still

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it's still uh

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sometimes troublesome if if you lose

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something how to to to find it back also

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because you you tend to focus on on the

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walls and the floors and it might it may

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just be floating just in front of it and

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you might just miss it it's amazing how

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you can look around for something which

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is right in front of you so that's still

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going on and i think our brain has a

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hard time uh to deal with uh with

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the the three dimensions uh but we are

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uh we are careful to prevent it so

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everything we have we fix it with velcro

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with tape with bungee cords

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so we we are pretty good in preventing

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to uh to lose something

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you know one of our favorite topics on

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science friday are the microbes that

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live in and on us i wonder have you guys

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looked at

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how how microbes respond to space or if

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the same microorganisms live with us

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when we're in when you're on space

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you know i think the microbes are with

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us whether we like it or not

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and uh and as far as i know

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the

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behavior of a single microbe in

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weightlessness is is probably close to

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what it is in gravity what may be

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different would be cultures if you had a

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tank of fluid filled with some kind of

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microbes they may clump

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in the absence of gravitational driven

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buoyancy forces

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they may clump in a manner that's

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different than uh the same culture

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growing on earth so there may be some

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interesting three-dimensional structure

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in colonies of microorganisms and that

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in in itself may uh affect the way the

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colony grows as a whole so you bring up

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an interesting question maybe maybe that

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could be a future saturday morning

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science

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i hope so so about a month ago we

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watched you guys capture the dragon and

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actually we literally watched you

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capture the dragon we huddled around

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this computer in the science friday

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office and you made it look just

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effortless but

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how was it for you was it was it a

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yeah i i think you could call it a

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stressful day in the office uh it's

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something that we'd practiced for

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and uh we practiced

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27 different ways with

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27 different kinds of malfunctions and

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what happens if a happens that we do b

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and and if b doesn't work we do c and

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and so on and so forth and

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and

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personally i was happy everything was

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nominal when you're working in a

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frontier like this you don't want to be

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a hero where where you jump up and save

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the day you'd rather have everything be

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nominal so that nobody has to be

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a hero and save the day and fortunately

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that's the way dragon turned out and it

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turned out that way primarily because of

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all the hard-working folks on the ground

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that had sharpened their pencils and

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we heard a lot about dragon but were

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there other events that happened in

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space station another top event that you

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think should have gotten gotten more

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more due that we haven't heard about as

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well uh

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we're doing a lot of fascinating science

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and

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sometimes that doesn't get as much uh

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headline news as these single events and

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i think one of the reasons why

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is that science in the process

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of being made isn't necessarily exciting

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in fact some people might call it boring

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if if you're sitting in front of a piece

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of scientific equipment maybe a glove

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box and you know your hands are poking

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in there and maybe you scratch your nose

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every so often with your shoulder

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because you can't because your hands are

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in the glove box and and you know

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someone watching you do that

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is just going to be bored but the

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science that's going on in the glove box

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may be really really exciting and

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and and so

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when the documentary is made in 10 years

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the professional journalists and actors

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will be able to make it exciting but but

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the the course of a real scientist doing

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real science it's i think it's pretty

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dry

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oh john i think you do you do a pretty

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good job to my mind so i i wondered are

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there um

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are there were there challenges to

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living in space station that you you

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hadn't foreseen or did this experience

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test you

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yeah i think there's a lot of challenges

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up here and i think you really notice it

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at the end of the day

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when you're really really tired like

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andre was saying before

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you always have to be aware of things

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that might float away if you're working

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a procedure

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you don't want to miss a step that could

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be critical that could break some

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equipment

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and so everything you do from when you

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wake up in the morning and you have

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breakfast using the bathroom

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to the procedures you do use all day

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it is really really tiring and i think

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that's the one of the biggest things

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that i noticed since i've been up here

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i think we have just a little under a

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minute left so maybe as a quick quick

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ender are there qualities that you would

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identify for a long-term mission now

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that you've spent so much time up in

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yes what i would do is any prospective

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crew member i would go and look in their

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garage and if their garage is a mass

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hodgepodge then that would be an

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automatic disqualifier if their garage

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is nice and neat then you know that they

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are going to be able to take care of all

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the equipment on space station and put

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everything away in its proper place

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thank you so much expedition 31 flight

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engineers joe acaba andre kuipers and

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don pettit thank you for talking to us

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on science friday from the international

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it's been a pleasure uh by now science

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fry is one of my favorite uh npr

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stations

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uh thank you don and safe trip back to

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station this is houston acr thank you

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