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houston i am ready for the event

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science museum of virginia this is

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mission control houston please call

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oh that's us okay uh this is rich conte

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of the science museum of virginia how do

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hey good afternoon i hear you loud and

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all right thank you good morning we've

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ready hi my name is fernando

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my question is what inspired you to be

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old films of the apollo missions and the

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people walking on the moon and that kind

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of got me excited about space i really

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science fiction and all these things

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astronaut when i was a kid and i saw

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that they were looking for

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some school teachers to become

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astronauts so i thought i'd give it a

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luckily i was accepted and here i am

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volunteer at the science museum drew too

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hello hi my name is drew i have a

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has your perspective on life changed

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since being on the space station and

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perspective changed i think since i was

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that you know realize that we do need to

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really solidified that and when you're

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window and you see the earth kind of out

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in space you can really really

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about the earth a little bit stronger

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you know would push everyone to to think

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espacio como affected

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uh mike you want to tell us what the

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hey joe could you maybe give us that

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what i was saying is it's amazing how

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easily the human body adapts to being in

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video a lot of the fluids in our bodies

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hi my name is dawud i want to ask when

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hi my name is freddy

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technology engineering mathematics so

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some people think science is difficult

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happening around us which is what

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hi my name is rajin

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my question is what do you miss most

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my friends and my family that hey we're

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weather on earth you know being outside

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hi my name is rhonda um my question is

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superman or spiderman so i can you know

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hear i can hang on the wall

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those are things you can't do on earth

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and that's pretty neat

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and the second one is probably looking

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out the windows and looking at earth

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there's a lot of beautiful views when

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i'm at home on earth you can go to a

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mountain and you can look out on the

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valley but the view we have up here is

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pretty unique so the two things i enjoy

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most are floating around enjoying that

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and then looking out the window and

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appreciating the beautiful earth we live

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okay our next question

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hi my name is carlos and my question is

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are you working on any special projects

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well a lot of i mean almost everything

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we do up here is pretty special

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and coming up soon in a few weeks we

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have a japanese cargo vehicle

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that will be coming to the space station

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that we have to grab and attach to the

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space station

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and then we have a couple of space walks

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coming up so those are pretty special

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times

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during my mission

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and personally one thing i wanted to do

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while i was here is i wanted to keep a

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journal of what i'm doing every day so i

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try to write a little bit

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when you're up here sometimes it it

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almost seems like a dream

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and after my shuttle flight you know

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sometimes you look back and

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did it really happen and so

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i really wanted to

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you know take notes and write things

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down that are happening here every day

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so i can remember those things and when

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i come back i can share them with people

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and i think you know keeping a journal

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it's a cool thing because you'll write

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stuff down that you feel today

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and it's pretty neat to look back at

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that in a few years and and see what you

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and so my answer was

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of course we like being in space that's

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one of the best parts about about our

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job but really that's a small part of

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what we do as astronauts but what i

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really like is that

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every day we're doing something

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different and

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it's uh it's fun it's exciting and

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sometimes it's difficult but when you

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really enjoy it

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those things that are difficult they

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don't really seem like work so

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you know i say i'm going to work every

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day but it's uh it's a lot more like

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okay joe we're entering the rapid fire

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round we got three quick ones for you

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can you tell us how long you've been on

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the station what you had for breakfast

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okay i've been in space uh coming up on

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maybe two months uh for breakfast i had

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some oatmeal with raisins and some

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peaches and a cup of coffee

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and behind me

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i'm in the lab right now so behind me we

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have uh one of the nodes where we eat

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and if you keep going back behind me

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you'll run into the russian segment of

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joe the audience wants to know if you

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yeah it's uh you know we we call this

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the uh

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you know the u.s operating system side

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and we call it the russian side but

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really you know it's a one space station

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we work together um throughout our

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some of the russians will sleep here in

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our crew quarters and so

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you don't need a visa to go back and

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forth from one side to the other but we

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spend most of our days apart just

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because we specialize in the equipment

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in our different segments of the space

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station but really we're one big team

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working together and if my

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extension cord was long enough and i

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could take the camera i could fly you

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over there so maybe we can do that

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joe we have just about uh 30 seconds and

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you've got an audience of young people

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who've really been inspired by your talk

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is there anything else you'd like to

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well i'd just like to tell them you know

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thanks for joining me today i'm very

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excited that you're showing an interest

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in the sciences and the one thing i

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would say is don't be afraid to dream

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big

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don't let people bring it down and tell

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you you can't do it because dreams can

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come true

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they're hard and you do have to work

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hard they're not just going to happen

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but when you have an opportunity you

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know take that and go after what you

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want

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you're you know you got your whole life

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ahead of you so

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work hard and do what you want to do but

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make sure you have fun while you're

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all right can we all give joe a big

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and station this is houston acr that

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thank you science museum of virginia