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who's jeremy

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peggy whitson chief of the astronaut

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office peggy um

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12 years ago today

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the zvezda service module is launched

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from a launch pad several miles from

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where we're standing at this moment

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that began the most serious aspect of

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the assembly of the space station

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in a few days launch of the next crew to

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perpetuate the work up there

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your thoughts on how far we've come over

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the past 12 years from service module

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launch to the upcoming launch of sunny

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inaki and yuri well it's actually huge

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number of accomplishments that have

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occurred over that time frame building

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the structure of the international space

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station

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is hard to even describe and understand

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but you know to have so many modules the

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sizes of

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school buses connected together on orbit

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and truss assemblies longer than a

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football field and solar arrays 239 feet

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and four pair it's just an amazing feat

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that all of this has been constructed on

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orbit and now now that we have all these

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laboratories up there we're we're

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continuing the next phase of of

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exploration with scientific exploration

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looking at various different phys

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physical and biological sciences

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onboard the international space station

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sunny and aki

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final days before launch

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how are they doing what's their level of

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preparation and their level of uh

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shall we say uh ready to get on with

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this flight oh they're absolutely ready

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they're very gung-ho this crew is a very

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special crew very outgoing and

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gregarious crew and i think folks on the

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ground will have fun watching them in

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addition to them having fun on orbit

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they've got a

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fantastically busy mission ahead of them

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they are looking toward nine visiting

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vehicles during the time that they're up

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on board the space station which is

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really a lot of coming and going and

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it's going to take a lot of choreography

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by the ground teams and the crews on

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orbit to make this all happen it'll be a

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very challenging and exciting time for

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speaking of that a little more

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specificity in a six week period after

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docking there are nine visiting vehicles

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dockings undockings redockings two

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spacewalks all in that time frame

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almost unprecedented volume of activity

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how are they gonna handle all that well

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choreography to get it all handled and i

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think that our teams on the ground have

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a plan and and i know our crews are

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ready to implement on orbit

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and bring you one final question two

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months ago we were back here for joe

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acaba's launch two months later another

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soyuz vehicle behind you ready to be

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hoisted vertically for launch on sunday

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uh an almost amazing piece of activity

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here in baikonur as well

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yeah it has been i was here two weeks

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ago for a

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landing for don pettit and andre

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kuiper's landing

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uh and so it's it's just been uh a lot

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of activity going on here in in

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kazakhstan as well as all over the world

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and all the control centers that

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participate in the international space

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janet cavandi director of flight crew

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operations at the johnson space center

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janet scarcely two months after joe

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space station another soyuz on the pad

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suni williams and aki hoshide along with

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yuri malenchenko ready to go on sunday

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uh what is your

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your your thoughts on their level of

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preparedness for launch and the busy

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time that lies ahead well of course we

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have a pretty uh accomplished crew

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they're they're very ready to go they've

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been bent most of them been there before

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so this won't be anything new for these

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so they're very anxious you know ready

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to ready to go they know there's a lot

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of work up there to be done uh it's not

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a place you can just kick back and relax

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you know there's so much science to be

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done there's a lot of payload operations

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up there that they have to be working on

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when they get there there's a lot of

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stuff that needs to be maintained all

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the time on space station so you know

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they're ready for it and they're in a

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good mood and ready to go

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in the particular case of this crew they

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hit the ground running literally at the

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moment of hatch opening from the time of

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the beginning of august nine visiting

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august all this within about a six-week

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how can the crew bite off this much

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right off the bat well that's why we

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pick such good people right for these

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things you know we interview a lot of

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people you know that we've gone through

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over six thousand applications so far

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for the next election so we try to pick

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the best possible people we can who are

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very enthusiastic and and energetic and

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really know when a big job has to be

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done they're ready for it so these guys

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prepare for of course years uh in

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advance of a launch they know what to

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expect they know they're going to have a

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lot to be doing and it's just a mental

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mindset you have to be prepared mentally

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you have to know that you're going to

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hit the ground running you don't have

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time to sit and really reflect on where

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you are and these guys like i said

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professionals have done this before so

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they know what they're up against they

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know how to you know work their time and

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their rest so that they're always

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prepared ready to go for everything that

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they they're expecting

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we're coming up on 12 years of permanent

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human occupancy of the international

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space station

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from a few fledgling modules to the city

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what are your thoughts you've been you

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went to the mir space station you went

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to the international space station

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during assembly your thoughts on where

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it has come from in the past decade and

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two years yeah it's it's actually just

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quite incredible i mean just from my

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first experience seeing mir and what an

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incredible space station that was then

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to be able to go back and go to the

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international space station during its

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wishing so much that you could share in

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person what it feels like to approach a

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space station and how huge it has become

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and how complex it is and what a tribute

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to human humanity that we've been able

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to construct something so large and

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complex in space in a cooperative manner

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the way we have is just really

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impressive and contribute to our race i

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an incredible accomplishment so it's

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humbling and you're very proud to be

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part of it and you know like i said

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crews are up there ready to do what