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hi welcome to mission control houston

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and thank you for joining us today we're

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inside the international space station

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flight control room where the orbit 2

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team is monitoring the systems and the

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cruise activities aboard the

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international space station we're here

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today to talk with uh sixth to eighth

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grade students that are out at

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huntsville alabama at

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space camp and here with us today is a

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special guest she knows a little about

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space camp liz warren who is also the

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space station uh science communication

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coordinator

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welcome liz and thank you for coming

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thank you very much for having me i'm

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very excited to speak with you thank you

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and what is also very very very special

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about liz being here is

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well you've been here at nasa for eight

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and um she's a space camp graduate she

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went level one and level two

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and um it's also was recently inducted

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into the space camp hall of fame just

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this year yes i was congratulations it

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was a lot of fun it's a huge honor so

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many people have gone to space camp just

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like the students were speaking with

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the 600 000th graduate walked through

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the doors of space camp

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so that's exciting so again we have a

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special treat for you guys so we're

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hi i'm maggie swanian and i'm from

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my question is what are the

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defects almost of being in space too

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long what happens to your body what

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happens if you're there too long or for

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a long period of time

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well that's a great question and it's

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actually very appropriate i'm a

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physiologist so that's like the thing

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i'm most interested in what happens to

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the human body when you go to space for

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a really long time and

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while it looks like a lot of fun to live

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in space and float around it looks like

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a like a great time it's not really that

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good for your body

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gravity is this force that we live with

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on earth all the time and it helps us

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maintain strong bones and muscles and a

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strong cardiovascular system in

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microgravity while those systems tend to

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decondition or get weaker so astronauts

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can lose bone mass bone strength

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muscle strength and mass and also their

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hearts get a little bit weaker among

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some other changes fortunately we have

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studied these changes and we know how to

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prevent them or prevent some of the

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changes that occur so astronauts have to

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exercise about two hours every day

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nutritious meals and so just like living

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here on earth it's important to exercise

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and eat well and that helps our

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astronauts helps you as

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well good question we have another one

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my name is emma hearn and i'm from

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what kind like when

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decided that that being an astronaut

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would be pretty cool and definitely

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working at nasa i might have been even

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questions asked my parents how do i do

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this i talked to teachers

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and really anyone can can work at nasa

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any there's a variety of interests

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engineering and science and math of

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open up many doors to career fields but

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nasa has people that are artists and

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lawyers as well

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but i knew pretty young that that i

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wanted to contribute to space

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exploration and

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i think it was in particular there was

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one very inspiring space shuttle mission

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i was still in high school and this

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mission was dedicated to studying space

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life sciences and i didn't know very

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much about space life sciences but i

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knew that i liked space and i knew that

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i liked biology and this particular

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space shuttle mission combined both of

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my interests and uh with that mission i

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decided i'm gonna go be a physiologist

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hi my name is cameron and

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i'm from atlanta georgia and i was

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wondering have you ever sent any other

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monkeys to space other than mrs baker

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special monkeys but in fact a lot of

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different animals including other

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monkeys have flown in space in fact our

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early space program since we weren't

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really sure what would happen to the

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human body living in space we we had

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animals go first and kind of test the

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but in fact we've uh even on the

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international space station we have a

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brand new aquarium it's called the

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aquatic habitat and pretty soon we're

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going to have some fish on board so we

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multi-generational studies in other

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then their babies so we can learn uh

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developmentally what happens in

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microgravity but yeah lots of animals

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duluth georgia and my question is

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who controls the shuttle or the rocket

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know you work here in the international

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entire room is full of a team and and

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folks that are not inside this room that

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many times a day nine years 16 times a

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day every 90 minutes yeah um of course

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the astronauts are on board you know

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most of the most of the rockets to make

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sure that all the systems are operating

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nominally and and uh of course they have

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to throw switches and certainly during

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landing they're they're having to make

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key inputs as well

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a team there's no uh

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your education career and then later in

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life in your career you'll see that

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of your life good question do we have

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um i'm kira hoskin from atlanta georgia

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um about how many people has america

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close to 500 people total who have been

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to space and i actually don't know the

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distribution of americans versus

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russians versus other countries

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human beings that have existed on our

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space for 50 years now which which

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commercial space flight really comes on

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space flight participants or or tourists

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people who just buy a ticket to space

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restricted area to to more people so i

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that distribution is well i don't have

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my cheat sheet with me um however but i

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who have flown to the international

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they all recognize that it is a

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see your dreams absolutely you know one

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of being a good follower as well as a

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good leader so those skills i i recall

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little bits that you take away from

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space camp they're with you for for the

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rest of your life i still draw upon

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experiences that i learned at space camp

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hi i'm matt stone from lawrenceville

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what is the longest period of time

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that an astronaut has been in space

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time at once like in one consecutive uh

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stay in space uh was actually uh done by

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a russian his name is valeri polyakov

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438 days so well over a year this

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gentleman stayed in space

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astronauts and cosmonauts that when you

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and safely it's a very hard thing to do

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just keeping a vehicle in an operational

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state is very hard to do just yesterday

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we completed a very complex and very

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important spacewalk because we had an

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electrical problem on the space station

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so every day we're learning how to go

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how to live and work safely in space

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we're going to go to mars it's just a

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matter of time and national priority i

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think if we had to go soon we could we

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could go but there's still a lot we need

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to learn for example

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just human beings being in space for

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that long is really hard there are some

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challenges with radiation

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and so there's a lot we need to learn

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but

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i i i'm sure we're going to get there uh

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eventually

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hi my name is brandon and i live in

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lawrenceville georgia and my question is

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how would astronauts like

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move around and do

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regular everyday things with

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less much less gravity

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living on the international space

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station

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we say

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microgravity and

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you can see video i hope you you're able

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to watch nasa tv or some of the

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excellent footage we have on the

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nasa.gov website and youtube sites

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it looks like a blast it looks like fun

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it goes like this

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it's very slow motion

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yeah and all you need it's very

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effortless though if you want to move

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all the way across a room all you need

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to do is push gently on on the wall that

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you're near and you'll you'll float to

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the other side of the room so

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it looks like a lot of fun but it looks

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also looks pretty easy you can use your

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hands you can use your feet and you see

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them lifting very large heavy things

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that traditionally we would not be able

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to lift here on earth but also i know

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that at times it can complicate things

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and as liz had mentioned earlier about

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even just the uh you know if you imagine

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the gravity especially on our bodies you

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know just the simple movements that we

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make standing sitting and walking even

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though you don't have a you may not have

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a

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once once it's in orbit it just goes

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around and around the earth it's

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constantly falling though essentially

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when we when we talk about microgravity

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um we can you could also say free fall

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so the space station is always falling

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toward the earth but the great thing is

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the earth is also moving away from it so

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that's this neat balance between gravity

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pulling it down and and the force of the

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space station and the speed of the space

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station carrying it away it's it's a

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nice balance which which creates that

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micro gravity environment

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but the way it stays in space is is

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every once in a while we have to give it

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a little bit of a boost because there's

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just a little bit of friction out there

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just a few air molecules and everyone

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every time the space station hits one of

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those little air molecules it slows down

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ever so slightly

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so every once in a while we have to give

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the space station a little extra boost

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and it'll stay up there indefinitely

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until we're ready to take it down

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very good question very smart kids i can

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tell do we have another one

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hi my name is regan uh i'm from

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huntsville

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what are the qualifications of an

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astronaut

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hey reign well the qualifications for

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astronauts are that they have to have an

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advanced uh education so you've got to

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finish college get a bachelor of science

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degree

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in science math technology engineering

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and also

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usually a work experience the more

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breadth you have seems to be really

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valuable

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our astronauts have have a wide variety

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of skill sets and experience there are

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people who are

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marine biologists there are geologists

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there are engineers there are

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boy there are a whole variety there's

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medical doctors so it almost seems like

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any career that you choose um

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and if you want to be an astronaut be

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really good at what you do

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and enjoy what you're doing choose a

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field that that is something you enjoy

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and you'll probably excel if you're

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doing something that you really enjoy

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and

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there are people in the military who

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become astronauts because of their

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experience flying so there's a there's a

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great

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really high skill sets and abilities

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hi i'm emily i'm from georgia besides

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exercise what do astronauts do

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boy astronauts are very very busy when i

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said they exercise two hours a day

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that's crammed in the middle of a very

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busy day

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an average day in space usually wake uh

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wake up around six in the morning now

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when i say six in the morning that's uh

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uh on greenwich mean time so for houston

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and for huntsville that's about two in

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the morning right or one in the morning

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depending on if it's if it's central

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daylight or if it's daylight savings

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time or not um wake up at six have a

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little bit of time

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for hygiene eating breakfast getting

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ready for the day getting dressed and

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then right into a conference where you

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speak with ground controllers here in

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the space station control room and you

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kind of talk about what's going to go go

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on for the day and then you get right

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into doing science experiments

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maintenance of the space station and it

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takes a lot of work just to keep the

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space station going a variety of space

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station experiments you may be working

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with flame and combustion one minute and

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then the next minute taking an

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ultrasound or the next hour taking an

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ultrasound images of your heart and then

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you may go 10 to the aquatic habitat

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where you may have some fish

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and then have a quick lunch usually keep

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working throughout the day

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maybe have another conference with a

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doctor or the flight director just to

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keep tabs on how things are going

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the day usually ends with another

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conference where i talk about what

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happened during the day with the ground

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controllers talk maybe about what's

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going to happen the next day what worked

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what didn't work

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and in the middle there i said you know

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you had your two hours of exercise and

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then and then you have a little bit of

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free time and then and then bed and

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that's a very very busy day the

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astronauts

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have a tremendous workload and almost

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every minute is accounted for

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very busy day and it's every day every

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day they get a little time to talk to

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their families on the weekends and they

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can make a phone call here and there

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but but otherwise they're extremely busy

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there's six people on the international

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space station and they're working very

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hard so you can imagine how much work is

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getting done

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very good question and i think we have

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time for another one do we have another

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my name is abigail and i'm from

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huntsville alabama and i was wondering

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um

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have there ever been any problems in

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with this

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rocket ship or anything that happened

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that wasn't supposed to happen

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absolutely space space travel abigail is

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is is difficult we've been doing it for

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50 years we're still learning

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there have absolutely been some

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challenges to overcome we've had we've

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had some accidents along the way we've

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lost some people and that's very hard

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it's something that we accept in the

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space business though

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we go into this knowing that we're

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pushing the very boundaries of human

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ability and when you're exploring and

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you're pushing boundaries

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there's going to be some losses and

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we've had some very sad losses

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but it also gives nasa an opportunity

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and our energy and our international

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partners to really shine too because

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when you overcome a challenge it really

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feels good

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like i mentioned earlier just yesterday

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there was a very very difficult eva

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that's a spacewalk

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that was performed that fixed a really

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serious problem with power

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that it was basically cut the space

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station's power by about half

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essentially and so every day we're

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having challenges almost every day and

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when we overcome those challenges it

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feels really good and it helps us to

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learn so that we can do better in the

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future

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and maybe one day get to mars

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i believe it we will

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what was the first mission they ever

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worked on

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me personally

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i was doing research as a college

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student the first mission i helped with

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was sts-84

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and

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this experiment actually

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went to the mir space station it

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launched on the space shuttle went to

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the mir space station and stayed there

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with astronaut mike foale and it was a

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little little uh experiment that studied

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circadian rhythms or or sleep and how

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well astronauts may um may learn uh how

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to how to sleep better and how light

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affects how well they sleep and actually

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the experiment was on little beetles we

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launched little beetles and little

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miniature um holding canisters and that

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was the first the first mission that i

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worked on and i've been working ever

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since on a whole bunch of missions it's

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it's it's been a tremendous honor and i

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love doing it every day

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and if it's something you want to do

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just

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keep working at it it's sometimes

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there's obstacles to overcome in school

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or in your personal life

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i was very very happy and lucky that i

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knew what i wanted to do so i just set

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my goal and i worked toward it steadily

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my name is gemin and i'm from ohio and

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how did the people know where to land

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curiosity on mars

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wow

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i don't even know the answer to that

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question but i can guess

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and i think they chose a place on mars

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that was really interesting to them

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geologically but i am definitely not the

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right person to ask there's so many

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things to learn about nasa and we can't

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possibly all know all the answers

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and i'm certainly not the person you ask

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either i'm sorry i don't know the answer

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to that but you can go to

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www.nasa.gov there's a ton of

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information there

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obviously there's a ton of information

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about mars curiosity there are several

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people who tweet

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on twitter so if any of you guys are on

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twitter

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go there i would say follow the flight

561
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director

562
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mohawk guy

563
00:21:36,310 --> 00:21:34,320
uh bobak pradowski he's um known as

564
00:21:37,830 --> 00:21:36,320
tweets out loud on twitter and you can

565
00:21:40,070 --> 00:21:37,840
get a lot of information about what

566
00:21:42,710 --> 00:21:40,080
exactly is going on with that mars rover

567
00:21:49,830 --> 00:21:42,720
um there on mars and in the that landed

568
00:21:55,830 --> 00:21:52,789
hi i'm nicole i'm from stone mountain

569
00:21:58,310 --> 00:21:55,840
georgia and i was wondering how it felt

570
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when you had a successful landing from

571
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either a human or an animal and like

572
00:22:04,630 --> 00:22:02,400
they came back and they went there with

573
00:22:06,710 --> 00:22:04,640
no problems

574
00:22:08,789 --> 00:22:06,720
well that that mission that i mentioned

575
00:22:11,110 --> 00:22:08,799
earlier sts-84 being that it was the

576
00:22:13,990 --> 00:22:11,120
first mission that uh that i worked on

577
00:22:15,590 --> 00:22:14,000
personally um it was tremendous i had

578
00:22:18,149 --> 00:22:15,600
watched a lot of space shuttle missions

579
00:22:20,149 --> 00:22:18,159
launched before that as and and just

580
00:22:21,990 --> 00:22:20,159
watching those missions happen very

581
00:22:24,310 --> 00:22:22,000
exciting and thrilling but when you have

582
00:22:26,149 --> 00:22:24,320
a part when you're playing a part in a

583
00:22:27,909 --> 00:22:26,159
small role

584
00:22:30,789 --> 00:22:27,919
it really gives you tremendous

585
00:22:32,630 --> 00:22:30,799
satisfaction everyone here at nasa

586
00:22:34,870 --> 00:22:32,640
pretty much everyone has a very small

587
00:22:36,630 --> 00:22:34,880
role for the most part when you add up

588
00:22:38,950 --> 00:22:36,640
all those people working together you

589
00:22:41,029 --> 00:22:38,960
can do tremendous things and you know

590
00:22:41,990 --> 00:22:41,039
the astronauts they're just the most

591
00:22:45,270 --> 00:22:42,000
visible

592
00:22:46,870 --> 00:22:45,280
pieces of us of a mission um but there's

593
00:22:48,549 --> 00:22:46,880
there's thousands of people working

594
00:22:50,870 --> 00:22:48,559
every day to make sure that we're

595
00:22:53,270 --> 00:22:50,880
successful and all those thousands of

596
00:22:56,070 --> 00:22:54,470
i get tremendous

597
00:22:58,070 --> 00:22:56,080
self-satisfaction knowing that i'm

598
00:23:00,070 --> 00:22:58,080
helping just the littlest bit and that

599
00:23:02,390 --> 00:23:00,080
that makes me feel really good it's it

600
00:23:04,470 --> 00:23:02,400
just makes you feel just good inside and

601
00:23:08,070 --> 00:23:04,480
i think that's a in overall the

602
00:23:10,149 --> 00:23:08,080
consensus here i honestly um at landing

603
00:23:12,390 --> 00:23:10,159
you know i've seen many many missions

604
00:23:14,310 --> 00:23:12,400
land and i can tell you every time we

605
00:23:16,390 --> 00:23:14,320
land and we have a successful mission i

606
00:23:17,350 --> 00:23:16,400
get goosebumps i get excited it doesn't

607
00:23:19,110 --> 00:23:17,360
change

608
00:23:21,029 --> 00:23:19,120
i never become desensitized well i think

609
00:23:21,830 --> 00:23:21,039
yeah yeah i've seen it once i've seen it

610
00:23:23,270 --> 00:23:21,840
all

611
00:23:25,590 --> 00:23:23,280
every mission is different and every

612
00:23:27,909 --> 00:23:25,600
mission is special and everyone involved

613
00:23:29,909 --> 00:23:27,919
in that is very special and unique and

614
00:23:32,230 --> 00:23:29,919
important to us as well as the mission

615
00:23:33,990 --> 00:23:32,240
as well and um so yeah it's very

616
00:23:36,390 --> 00:23:34,000
important to us and i think of course we

617
00:23:37,110 --> 00:23:36,400
feel elated when we know that we nailed

618
00:23:47,350 --> 00:23:37,120
it

619
00:23:49,350 --> 00:23:47,360
and i was wondering about how many

620
00:23:51,510 --> 00:23:49,360
different types of animals have you sent

621
00:23:54,870 --> 00:23:51,520
up to space

622
00:23:56,789 --> 00:23:54,880
well personally let's talk generically

623
00:23:59,669 --> 00:23:56,799
boy there's been fish there's been

624
00:24:02,390 --> 00:23:59,679
monkeys there's been insects

625
00:24:04,710 --> 00:24:02,400
there's been mice and rats

626
00:24:06,470 --> 00:24:04,720
i would say at least 10 probably

627
00:24:09,190 --> 00:24:06,480
different types of animals have been in

628
00:24:11,590 --> 00:24:09,200
space and and we can we can study them

629
00:24:13,830 --> 00:24:11,600
and learn from them as well as from our

630
00:24:15,029 --> 00:24:13,840
astronauts um

631
00:24:17,029 --> 00:24:15,039
so i think

632
00:24:18,390 --> 00:24:17,039
yeah quite a few critters have gone up

633
00:24:20,950 --> 00:24:18,400
into space so

634
00:24:22,950 --> 00:24:20,960
along with our people quitters

635
00:24:24,390 --> 00:24:22,960
i think uh that's about all the time

636
00:24:26,149 --> 00:24:24,400
that we have that was the last question

637
00:24:28,390 --> 00:24:26,159
we really appreciate you guys coming out

638
00:24:29,669 --> 00:24:28,400
and joining us again we are inside the

639
00:24:32,470 --> 00:24:29,679
international space station flight