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Control Houston please call station for

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hello Sonny

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it is and joining me in studio is your

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woods Hall hi Sonny hi Deena hi Mindy

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how are you there was good to hear your

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voices hi Sonny uh we are so excited to

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be talking to you you open-space us here

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in Woods Hall Deena you were wondering

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where she is yes honey we're just

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wondering where you flying over right

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now oh I didn't look at world map I know

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a couple minutes ago we were over Japan

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so I'm sure where we're heading eastward

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getting a little bit closer to the

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United States right now but I didn't

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check world map exactly to know where we

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I'll try to do that in a little bit your

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last visit to the International Space

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what was it like to blast up into space

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aboard a Russian vessel is it similar to

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the shuttle or very different it's both

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similar and different you know in the

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space shuttle of course there's a lot of

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people and friends and family who are

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everybody to Kazakhstan just a lot fewer

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people friends and family but a whole

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bunch of you know support people who are

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there in Kazakhstan the rocket itself is

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a little bit smaller on the shuttle we

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flying and the soy is just three of you

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squished in in a little capsule together

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station wagon versus a VW bug in so far

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as the living compartment when you're

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blasting off the shuttle of course had

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two solid rocket boosters and so the

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rides a lot more bumpy ER in the very

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a liquid-fueled rocket so the whole ride

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home NASA TV probably saw the interior

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of the spacecraft because the camera

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liftoff and it almost looks like we're

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sitting still but it's dynamic inside I

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guarantee you that because it's you know

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every time a stage falls off there's

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pyrotechnics and you feel a pretty big

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jolt and that's probably obvious on TV

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too when people were watching and it was

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very obvious inside the capsule

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biggest difference I think is the size

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space station and so we had some time to

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acclimate a little bit smaller again

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working space in the Soyuz but but it

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was very similar once we get to orbit

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the whole process to come in and dock we

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want to get right to some of the you're

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triathlon being in space for a prolonged

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period of time tough on your body so in

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an effort to combat those negative

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effects that's really why you want to be

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when is the triathlon and how do you

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swim well I'm happy this time to be

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participating in the in the road race

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it's a just over seven miles as long

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history this year's its 40th reunion and

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also the triathlon with dr. Sanjay Gupta

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and that's in September so one in August

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the corner and the advanced resistive

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exercise device which is a weightlifting

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pushing against a vacuums in a in a

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canister the a red is new since I was

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treadmill with a wider base so those two

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pieces of equipment are a huge upgrade

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exercise protocol it's an experiment

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the exercise but I think by by a couple

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continuously now and and and I think

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lookout sunny that was Deena yeah so

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sunny tell us a little bit about the

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sure if you can see all around me right

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experiments there's also behind you at

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experiments and also the Japanese module

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microgravity glovebox which is right

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the spiders we have two spiders on board

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2,000 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea when

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was exactly what it felt like it was

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well you know of course I'm having fun

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me I know you're taking good care of him

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so thank you I know he's in Cape Cod

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loving life on the beach so of course

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having fun down there this summer I know

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what's hole in the summertime is

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beautiful so enjoy the summer while you

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up we just want to say thanks I mean who

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sunny good luck with your trip and good

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luck with the road race and the

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triathlon and your research

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sunny good to speak with you I I have to

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ask how you're doing up there but I have

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to tell you I don't the image of you is

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really crystal clear it's amazing to see

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you like this can you just tell us how

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far up in the sky you are how fast

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any airplane down there or any car on

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the road right now so the view is is

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quick but it's beautiful it's again it's

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just remarkable to see you like this

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just as planned everything was perfect

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you remember how are you sleeping how

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does it feel for you up there so an

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interesting question you know because

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people always asked like how do you

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sleep of course there's no bed so we

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have sleeping bags and we open the

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sleeping bags on the space and the Soyuz

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and stretch them out they're some of the

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recommendations by the way for the Soyuz

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is to have your head in the center

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because it does a solar spin while we're

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just orbiting while we're waiting to do

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a burn to get closer to the space

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station and part of that is you know

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just so you don't get sick and feeling

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that centrifuge feeling but you know all

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three of us felt pretty good and we

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slept like that the first night but then

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afterwards we just slept anywhere we

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wanted to sleep so now what they were on

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the space station we have four of us

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sleeping in the module that's right in

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front of the US laboratory which is

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called node 2 and we sleep in a little

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square pattern for force sleep stations

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together and then there's to sleep

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stations back in the Russian segment

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behind us and sleeping's been great

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brought my sleeping bag into my sleep

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station close the doors it's quiet it's

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dark in there I got it my own we all

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have our own laptops in there so we

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could do email while we're in there so

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it's actually been really nice and some

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people also talked about having some

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back pain from your spine stretching I

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think mine may be got flexible from my

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last flight being up here because I

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didn't really feel too much back pain at

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all this this time it this time around

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so sleeping has been great

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eating's been great you know

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everything's been been pretty perfect so

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yeah and you know one of the other

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things I did when I when I visited you

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at Johnson Space Center was to do a

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essentially a virtual reality space walk

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and it was I me was a remarkably

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challenging I found for myself I even

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got nauseated even in the virtual

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reality art and do you have any faith

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walk plan yeah we have one plan for the

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end of August it's called EBA 18 we have

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a big box a big computer a power

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switching unit outside that we're gonna

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switch out and also run some cables from

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the u.s. segment back to the Russian

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segment to provide power for a module

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that they'll put up in the future but

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you know what when we're up here for a

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little while we get pretty used to being

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in different orientations like it's not

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it's not a big deal to just turn around

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so some of that stuff that you felt

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while you are doing the virtual reality

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lab still having gravity pulling on you

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you know we don't feel that here at all

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and particularly after being here for a

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little while and then doing a spacewalk

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you know I think it feels pretty natural

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the only big thing is wearing that that

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big EMU or spacesuit that that you saw

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pretty upfront and close that's still a

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little bit hard to work in and that's

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why we work out pretty much a lot it

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will every day while we're here up on

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the space station to make sure we're

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that's a perfect transition fit being

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physically ready because you and I also

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have decided to do this triathlon

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together mid September the Malibu

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Nautica triathlon you're going to do it

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in space I'm going to put on earth and

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again it was one of most fascinating

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things for me to watch you train on

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earth ha and done the Boston Marathon

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before from space back in 2007 I believe

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how is your training going what's it

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like up there well you know the

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adaptation is is great for space so you

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know it up here everything feels a

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little bit easier you know just you just

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I keep floating by it just takes one

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hand to move yourself but then when you

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start simulating gravity when you get on

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the treadmill you have a harness on

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that's pulling you down or you get on

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the weightlifting machine and you're

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actually doing squats and deadlifts

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against a weight based on vacuum it

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hurts

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so this first two weeks we've sort of

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used as just get used to the equipment

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get to get used to the protocols that

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we're doing so I think we're at that

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point that we're finally adapted and

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ready to start building on it so just

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watch out because I'm now I'm ready to

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really start preparing for the for the

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triathlon and watching the Olympics up

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here has been really motivating to turn

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us all into really good athletes right

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now I better watch what I say here if I

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get beat by you up in space

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but you are going 17,000 miles an hour

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so you do have that going for you you

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have the you have the bike I believe

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right and it continued yeah just quickly

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show us how you do this sure I was

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talking about the bike when you're

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visiting us before because luckily here

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on spit in space we don't need a seat

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all we do is put our feet in the pedals

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amazing here

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and station this Houston ACR check that

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your mic is on sorry about that

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in the floating it got turned off so we

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also have a computer here that we can

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dial in the resistance and the speed and

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then we also just for health purposes

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take our heart rate as we're riding and

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so we can this is how I'm going to

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stimulate the bike ride so for the hills

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I can increase my resistance to match

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the the route that you're going to take

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as I would I would assume that Malibu is

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not flat like Houston right not flat

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right I want you to increase that

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doesn't I don't know if you can still

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hear me as sunny but that does it

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you were saying yet just get used to

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doing this does it hurts your knees

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because you don't have like you think

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about having some gravity to help force

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your legs through the revolutions riding

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a bike and does it does it hurt the

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joints when you're doing it this way no

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you know surprisingly enough the bike

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for me is is really good for your your

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thighs and also cardiovascular as soon

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as I start increasing the resistance on

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the bike I think the cardiovascular part

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sort of starts to take over for me so

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that you know the knees are not a

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problem at all I think we get a really

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good knee and leg workout all for our

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joints particularly our hips our knees

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and our ankles on the advanced resistive

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exercise device and that's what that's

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made for you know up here of course we

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lose muscle mass and bone density just

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instantaneously as every day because

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we're not we don't we're not under the

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influence of gravity and so we

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definitely need some some type of

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loading on those parts of our body and

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the a red does that and also the

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treadmill does that as you you know as

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you run and then you come down and you

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know put a you know your foot flat on

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the treadmill as you're running so both

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of those things are good for the bone

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mass and the and the must muscle muscle

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mass and bone density but this guy for

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sure is good for cardiovascular yeah

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that's amazing and I did the treadmill

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with you and you're actually bungee cord

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it down into the treadmill to give you

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that to that resistance I got a

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squirrely quick I also visited a Food

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Lab when I was with you and I think

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people imagine you know food mountain

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space be pretty bland stuff I know you

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like a great deal of choice options with

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your food how's it going up there for

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you are you are you getting the types of

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food that you want yeah we have a really

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good pretty good menu of food and one

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thing that's associated with that people

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send up as our bonus container and also

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just in general we have condiments you

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know so we have hot sauce you know red

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pepper paste garlic paste and that and

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that type of stuff Tabasco so that makes

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the food taste a little bit better

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you have to remember we don't have a lot

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of fresh fruits and vegetables we

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brought up in our Soyuz some tomatoes

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and that was that was a treat for a

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while everything sort of is a little bit

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of a casserole type of consistency

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sticky and stuff like that so you don't

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get a lot of crunch maybe except for

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some nuts and things like that and it

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gets a little bit tiring drinking your

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coffee out of a bag but you know I'll

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enjoy my cup of coffee when I get home

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you know six months is a small amount a

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small price to pay for not enjoying that

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cup of coffee in the morning sitting out

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it's just absolutely fascinating what

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you're doing and even describing the

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food you don't want crumbs going around

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the the capsule he described it to me

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thanks so much for joining us neither

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Williams I'm looking forward to doing

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the triathlon with you and most

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thank you very much it's great to talk

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to you and good luck on the triathlon

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we'll see you out on the road there the

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station this is Houston ACR that

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concludes the event thanks sunny Thank

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