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good afternoon everybody welcome back to

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nasa's johnson space center here in

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houston texas as we take a look at the

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expedition 33 and 34 mission that's

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coming up later on this year i'm joined

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to my left by kevin ford who will be the

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commander of expedition 34. to his left

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is oleg novitskiy who's going to be the

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soyuz commander that will fly this crew

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up to the station and also bring them

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back home at the end of their journey

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and then also to his left as you have

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guinea telrelkin so we're going to hear

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from each one of these three crew

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members about their upcoming flight

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we're going to start off with kevin okay

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just uh just a few words from us thank

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you very much josh and then we'll uh

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we'll take some questions about the

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mission i think you all had a science

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briefing this morning so hopefully you

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got uh pretty pretty filled in on how

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big busy we're going to be up there

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as josh said we're the crew of soyuz 32s

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the three-person team uh that will

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become part of expeditions 33

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and then 34 while we're on board we're

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going to be flying up on

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tma-06m as the designation for our soyuz

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and launching in just a little over 11

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weeks

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obviously i can't tell you how how

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privileged we feel to be part of the

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crew going to the space station and how

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thrilled we are to be at this point in

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our training uh just coming up right now

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on the last few weeks of our us training

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and uh i have just a little bit of

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training left in in europe and then

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we'll be joining up

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about five weeks prior to launch in

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russia for our final

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stages of uh getting getting our

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polishing touches there and then taking

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our exams and qualifications to fly up

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to the international space station so

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we're really looking forward to that

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i want to say before i uh introduce

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these guys um we really

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uh appreciate the magnitude of the

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effort uh to get us into space and what

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the space station represents

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uh so few people uh get to fly up there

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compared to the number of people who

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invest their lives in it and put such an

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effort into to building this magnificent

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machine that is the space station and

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then it's teaching us so much

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about space and what we'll be able to do

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in space how the human body functions

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and learning about science also

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applicable just to our life on earth up

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there so i want to thank all those

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people who have invested in building it

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of course and uh and operating it now

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also quickly our trainers uh who have

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taught us uh everything they can uh each

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of our trainers know more about their

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subjects than we will ever know but

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they've put a little bit

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of what we need to know into us so that

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we can go up there and operate the space

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station hardware safely

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and of course keep the crew safe and get

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the mission done as uh as the the

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increment manager and our flight

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directors uh

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want us want us to carry it out so

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um those opening comments uh like i

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mentioned i got a couple friends here to

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my left now very good friends and uh

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colleagues cosmetics both from ross

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uh sitting to my left will be the soyuz

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commander oleg novitskiy and he's from

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belarus originally and will be his first

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flight to the space station

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and uh to his left is evgeny thurelkin

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who will be our flight engineer on the

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region of russia over uh toward the east

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and also a first time flier to the space

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station it's also my first time to fly

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to the space station on the soyuz so

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all three of us have many interesting

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experiences to look forward to together

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i couldn't think of two better guys to

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do it with so very excited about the

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you have all i can tell you maybe just a

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little bit about the the soyuz to and

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if you have guinea has a couple words

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and then we'll start taking some

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just launch time and the time in

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so to make it short and brief we are

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going to launch on october 15th from the

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bike on our cosmodrome the launchpad

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site is number 31 which is somewhat

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unusual because for the past 30 years

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there are no launches from this launch

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then on october 17th we're going to dock

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to the iss and i will start working with

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our six-member crew

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up until march 19th when the undock will

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take place and then they are going to

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i'd like to say that the soil is a very

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very reliable vehicle which has been

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flying for a number of years now so

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we're fully confident in the machine

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we're confident in our knowledge we

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learned a great deal and we feel fully

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have no optional situations whatsoever

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okay okay thank you i might just say uh

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when we get to the space station uh

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already on board operating as what we

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expedition 33 with three people sunny

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williams aki hosside and yuri

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malenchenko will have already been on

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with them so a lot of that time will be

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ground and then uh we'll have almost

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crew of uh the complement of expedition

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uh expedition 34 crew uh so that's a

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soyuz delay we had um just about seven

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or eight months ago but after our

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expedition is complete we're coming home

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the science going at a nice high level

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it's a good thought that we're just now

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getting into kind of the second

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full year of utilization on the space

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station so we really want to keep the

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science experiments running at a high

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getting getting the science done

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so uh with that

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morning's briefing and we'll be happy to

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johnson space center then we'll go to

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uh mr crow go ahead

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thank you uh mark caro for aviation week

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be happy to have a comment what what is

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the challenge as you see it

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for keeping the station maintained and

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having a more aggressive science

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state of the art now and and com and

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comm rate by 10 times in the course of

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number right but more more video and

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station so quite quite an improvement

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moving in the digital era so um

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science some of the challenge comes in

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science we're doing right now is really

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is really a very very healthy amount

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interesting things happen now in this

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russian space walks playing during your

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period i know you train for a lot of

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stuff i just wonder if anything is kind

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of falling into your stay at this point

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we did so things fell out of our uh of

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our increment actually and it's a little

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visiting vehicles and schedules have

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changed a little bit around it

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slipping down just a little bit they're

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my crewmates chris hadfield tom

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have trained as a backup for the cva 18

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akihosi day so if they for some reason

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situation doesn't permit them to get

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that eva accomplished we'll do it in the

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and then of course just like the

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cosmonauts we train here for many

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different contingencies there are many

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things that could happen outside that

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would need immediate attention and if

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that should happen we have

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all the skills we need on board to get

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out and take care of that

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get the get the space station uh back

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exactly where we want it uh and fully

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operational again

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okay robert

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uh robert with collectspace.com uh first

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for for kevin uh

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you mentioned um

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balancing science or the right amount of

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science on the station how during your

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training how well versed you get on the

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198 experiments we heard this morning

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are currently running and how much of it

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is just waiting for you to get up there

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and then just receiving day-to-day

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instruction

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the amount that's just waiting for us to

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learn on board is pretty small it's

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probably down you know in the 10 15

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there's a good complement of science uh

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alpha magnetic spectrometer you know our

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interface with that is a is a laptop

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that collects data on board during time

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outages and just keeping that healthy

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and making sure that they have the

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connections they need um

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same way with a lot of the payloads you

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know on the exposed facility maybe the

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spdm some of the things that are going

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on on outside

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that are space station experiments the

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crew has very inner very little

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interaction with and just because of our

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our time pressures for training purposes

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we don't spend you know a good deal of

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time we just get overviews on kind of

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the things that are going on

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uh on those experiments the ones we get

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the bulk of the time are the ones that

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we'll have to get in there

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set this experiment up perhaps and then

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actually

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take part in activation something like

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the burning and suppression of solids

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for example i just had training on it

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just a few days ago literally and it's

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all about putting

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putting different samples of materials

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that can combust inside

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watching uh flow rates and then igniting

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it and taking photos of it so that's

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you know if we don't do that well they

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don't get the data so those kinds of

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things they have to train us

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very diligently on and i would i would

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say we get we get training on about

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maybe a third of that that total package

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of experiments that's that's going on

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and that's kind of just a rough guess

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but i would say it's somewhere around

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there

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yeah you've seen spheres too maybe i'll

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throw that out the sphere is on board

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you know the crew has a big interaction

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with that one

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and i've had training on that too but uh

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some of the other stuff we don't see too

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much about we're just there to help

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okay thanks um and for all like you

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mentioned that this is going to be

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launching from a different launchpad um

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can you explain why the switch to

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another pad and when that pad was last

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actually launchpad requires some uh

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remodeling and

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modernization from time to time so this

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is a planned change before us all the

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launches used to take place at occur at

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the gregorian launch pad and now we're

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going to switch a tradition by going to

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show that launches can actually occur

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from any launch pad at the cosmodrome at

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the at the cosmodrome

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baikonur

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okay

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over here

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yeah down with the german space agency

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and space expo association question for

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kevin ford what kind of training and

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preparation do you have to go through

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from now until launch in october

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thank you

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well

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we

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served as backups uh for um gennady

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padalka sergei revin and joe acaba back

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in

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the middle of may

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so um that the reason i mentioned it is

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because they they really take us up to a

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fully qualified status to be that backup

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crew

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and uh between uh

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and to do some of their experiments on

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board too you know so i'll study a few

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things that i probably won't even see in

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my prime increment to get to that to

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that backup status but then in between i

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come back come back to houston i did

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make one trip back to

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to uh star city russia as well and we

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trained against some russian segment

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issues some some changes in some

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procedures some capabilities we have on

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space station for emergency scenarios

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for example we've

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we've got some new and improved

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techniques and

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and equipment on board so we get to

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learn all about that

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and also refresh your trainings on a lot

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of stuff a few more runs in the neutral

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buoyancy lab to keep proficiencies up

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with all the tools and equipments and

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then also

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they save this time also for some of

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that prime science that we'll be doing

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because it'll be fresher in your mind

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anyway if you'd flown as a backup you

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wouldn't have done it anyway so they

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save that for this increment so

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i just have

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three more weeks of us training and one

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week in cologne to get to get through

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all the rest of that

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and uh i i frankly i don't look too far

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ahead of my training i kind of kind of

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look day-to-day and

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there are people

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here that take care of me i have

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you know a training integrator kathy

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bolt who really builds my entire plan as

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just like a manager of a team or

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something just puts me in a position to

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be there and ready and so she's put that

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plan together for me and

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until i get on board

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i won't be sure i got everything i need

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to know but i i think she thinks i'll be

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ready so

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that's the most important thing and then

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we'll do this brush up in star city uh

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with soyuz

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get back in there and get really current

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and make sure we're all ready for the

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dynamic phases of flight and take exams

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that you probably well know about and

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then went down to baikonur about two

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weeks prior to launch and then some time

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for relaxation just just some easy kind

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of light days still some training

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involved but some light days just to

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kind of make sure

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by the time you get to lunch day you're

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rested and as prepared as you can be

447
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so do you guys have any

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any comments on your training in russia

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from here on out because

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they may have i don't know if they have

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um

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of course there are runs in the hydro

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lab because uh as of now we cannot yet

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say whether we're going to have russian

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space work or not

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but in general we do have runs so we're

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fully prepared and fully ready

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and uh to tell the truth we had full

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preparation when uh

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revan and padalka had their training so

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we are ready for the vernier day and if

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but i don't really see any major

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differences between the preparation for

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an eva in russia or in the west i think

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techniques

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there are certain differences in

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spacesuits but otherwise it's all the

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no

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as a regards training here it's more

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station wise

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emergency and of normal situations on

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board the international space station as

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but it's mostly russian modules again

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a recovery from offline situations and

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uh

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as

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however the major part is devoted to the

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source vehicle because the station is uh

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not as rapid and not as dynamic as the

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soyuz vehicle

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so we need to really have all the skills

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i think that's it

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okay is that it here in houston okay

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let's go to the phone lines we have

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denise chao with space.com go ahead

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denise

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hi thanks uh question for kevin

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um while you're on the station you're

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going to be visited by either the cygnus

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or the dragon capsule how exciting is it

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to be on the station during this time

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as we transition to commercial cargo

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vehicles

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oh that's that's a great question

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the big big transition time for nasa

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bringing these these guys aboard uh

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they've been doing really a fantastic

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job with development i can tell you

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everybody at nasa is really very

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impressed uh

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with with how the plans are coming along

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it's very very difficult thing to do

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both the vehicles look to be uh very

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capable

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we're really keeping our fingers crossed

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that they can they can start to move you

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know or start

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start moving just right on time in a

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regular tempo

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so that we can handle the

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the supply the supply issues that we

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have uh the supply requirements that we

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have and also the disposal

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and return issues that we have that we

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can take advantage of the the return

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also with dragon so both things uh both

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parts of that are very important to us

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uh just just from um a kind of a g whiz

519
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point of view um i i can remember it

520
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just doesn't seem like

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long ago at all that we were just

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talking about this concept of flying up

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underneath the space station and

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reaching out and grappling it with

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canadarm2 and bringing it aboard and uh

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manis in the astronaut office thought

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wow that's you know that's a pretty neat

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idea and it would really be neat to be a

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part of that and see it fly this vehicle

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fly up underneath and actively reach out

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grab it and bring it aboard

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so

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we've had success doing it with htv now

534
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already several times got another one

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coming up another grapple coming up here

536
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very shortly and uh the first flight of

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dragon worked uh so well so it's a real

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testament to the engineering kind of

539
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what we've learned in the history of

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space flight so that these these first

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flights of these vehicles can be very

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highly successful and the information

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sharing and with those companies is

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going really well

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pretty soon they'll just be delivering

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our supplies uh just in a regular way as

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a third party delivery company and

548
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that'll allow us to really concentrate

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on the other things that nasa shines at

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which is

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investing our money and testing and

552
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developing really new things and uh just

553
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letting them do the take care of the

554
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provisions for us so that's an exciting

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time to be up there and and see that

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happen

557
00:23:51,590 --> 00:23:50,000
okay is that it denise do you have any

558
00:23:53,190 --> 00:23:51,600
more

559
00:23:56,390 --> 00:23:53,200
no that's all thanks okay did i miss

560
00:24:00,070 --> 00:23:57,510
okay let's come back here to houston

561
00:24:01,909 --> 00:24:00,080
anybody have any follow-ups here

562
00:24:04,149 --> 00:24:01,919
go ahead robert um

563
00:24:05,430 --> 00:24:04,159
you've uh robert with collectspace.com

564
00:24:06,950 --> 00:24:05,440
again

565
00:24:08,549 --> 00:24:06,960
in addition to the three of you on board

566
00:24:11,269 --> 00:24:08,559
your soyuz as i understand you'll have

567
00:24:13,350 --> 00:24:11,279
30 some on japanese fish

568
00:24:15,830 --> 00:24:13,360
will they become your unofficial mascots

569
00:24:18,789 --> 00:24:15,840
or pets for the two-day trip to the

570
00:24:20,789 --> 00:24:18,799
international space station i might

571
00:24:22,710 --> 00:24:20,799
answer that i'm not sure if uh oleg and

572
00:24:23,750 --> 00:24:22,720
evgeny are well versed i just heard

573
00:24:27,110 --> 00:24:23,760
myself

574
00:24:29,750 --> 00:24:27,120
i've had training on these uh these fish

575
00:24:32,070 --> 00:24:29,760
they're madaka maybe just a little bit

576
00:24:35,510 --> 00:24:32,080
larger than guppy's and i've been

577
00:24:37,190 --> 00:24:35,520
trained on in japan on uh handling them

578
00:24:39,110 --> 00:24:37,200
they will be on our soyuz with us so all

579
00:24:40,950 --> 00:24:39,120
together we'll have 32 fish plus the

580
00:24:42,310 --> 00:24:40,960
three of us at least i don't know if

581
00:24:44,149 --> 00:24:42,320
there's other living creatures on there

582
00:24:47,029 --> 00:24:44,159
that i don't know about or not but

583
00:24:49,669 --> 00:24:47,039
so at least at least 35 living creatures

584
00:24:52,470 --> 00:24:49,679
the habitat for those fish uh is going

585
00:24:54,230 --> 00:24:52,480
to be delivered on htv and aki hosida

586
00:24:56,149 --> 00:24:54,240
will set that up and as when we come

587
00:24:58,310 --> 00:24:56,159
aboard one of the first

588
00:25:00,710 --> 00:24:58,320
the first items will be to get these

589
00:25:03,990 --> 00:25:00,720
fish transferred and into their habitat

590
00:25:05,909 --> 00:25:04,000
and get this experiment kind of underway

591
00:25:08,789 --> 00:25:05,919
it's an experiment for

592
00:25:10,470 --> 00:25:08,799
essentially osteoporosis these fish have

593
00:25:13,269 --> 00:25:10,480
bone structure the way it's built and

594
00:25:16,149 --> 00:25:13,279
destroyed is like mammals and so

595
00:25:18,149 --> 00:25:16,159
by by looking at the way that

596
00:25:19,430 --> 00:25:18,159
the changes in these fish in a zero-g

597
00:25:21,590 --> 00:25:19,440
environment they're going to see a lot

598
00:25:23,990 --> 00:25:21,600
about uh the way these osteoclasts and

599
00:25:26,470 --> 00:25:24,000
blasts which are forming and destroying

600
00:25:29,029 --> 00:25:26,480
bone uh change in the zero-g environment

601
00:25:31,029 --> 00:25:29,039
and really it's it's really about human

602
00:25:33,430 --> 00:25:31,039
research but it's uh it's being done

603
00:25:36,230 --> 00:25:33,440
with these uh these madoka fish so

604
00:25:38,950 --> 00:25:36,240
that'll be a very fun hands-on uh type

605
00:25:41,029 --> 00:25:38,960
experiment uh for me as well so

606
00:25:43,110 --> 00:25:41,039
i i meant to take along a fish that had

607
00:25:44,710 --> 00:25:43,120
to said gone fishing but i didn't you

608
00:25:46,950 --> 00:25:44,720
have to pack a year in advance for space

609
00:25:49,669 --> 00:25:46,960
flight so i didn't get my gun fishing

610
00:25:51,750 --> 00:25:49,679
hat up there unfortunately

611
00:25:52,630 --> 00:25:51,760
okay

612
00:25:53,590 --> 00:25:52,640
all right on that note we're going to

613
00:25:55,750 --> 00:25:53,600
wrap it up we want to thank our

614
00:25:57,430 --> 00:25:55,760
gentlemen for joining us today of course

615
00:25:59,029 --> 00:25:57,440
if you would like to learn more about

616
00:26:00,390 --> 00:25:59,039
this crew or the upcoming expedition

617
00:26:04,950 --> 00:26:00,400
later on this year just log on to the

618
00:26:10,789 --> 00:26:09,110
station once again it's www.nasa.gov

619
00:26:12,789 --> 00:26:10,799
station of course we invite you to join

620
00:26:15,350 --> 00:26:12,799
us early tomorrow morning beginning at 6

621
00:26:16,789 --> 00:26:15,360
00 a.m central time 7 a.m eastern time

622
00:26:19,909 --> 00:26:16,799
as we bring you live coverage of the

623
00:26:22,310 --> 00:26:19,919
arrival of the japanese htv-3 cargo

624
00:26:24,390 --> 00:26:22,320
craft as joe acaba and aki hoshide get

625
00:26:25,909 --> 00:26:24,400
ready to reach out and install

626
00:26:27,669 --> 00:26:25,919
that cargo vehicle on the bottom of the

627
00:26:28,789 --> 00:26:27,679
international space station so we'll see