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station this is spacewrap.com how do you

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i've got you loud and clear how me

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well for my first question sonny um when

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i do these interviews i usually get to

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the word expedition since that is how

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all of your uh trips up there have been

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and usually that word means going

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somewhere but in the case of the station

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it's more like an ocean going expedition

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you go in circles and you come back to

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where you started so i guess it also has

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some attributes of being like a base

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camp so

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your take on this whole thing of being

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on an expedition what are you

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accomplishing in a greater sense on this

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and how does this enable future

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expeditions where we would go to places

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hey keith that's a great question and uh

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you are right we're a lot of people ask

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me you know where is the space station

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and where is it going and it it is

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orbiting the the planet 16 times a day

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microgravity that allows us to do all

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sorts of science experiments that we

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seconds of microgravity and a drop tower

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completeness and their complexity while

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we're up here you know for example we're

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doing a lot of experiments on ourself

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that's going to help understand what

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happens to humans when they're in space

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for a long time we're doing material

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type of stuff helps us build better

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hotel or a house and so it has its own

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uh parts and pieces that we're testing

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out for the very first time like how to

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process urine back into water um and how

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that works and other types of

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engineering experiments that are going

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on up here as well as ams which is

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the uh universe and also robotics and

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eva all of that stuff is needed and we

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need to test it out understand it figure

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ever venture to an asteroid asteroid or

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a related question with regards to

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exploration in the cupola there's a

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little plaque has four little moon rocks

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that were picked up by neil armstrong

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and a piece of the summit about ever is

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picked up by another astronaut scott

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parazynski and in the national cathedral

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where there will be a service on

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thursday for uh neil armstrong there's

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also a little moon rock in the window

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how often do you all float by that

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plaque and do you you know have any

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thoughts when you look down at the earth

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sir edmund hillary were good friends

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virtually participating in the memorial

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speechless first and foremost

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you you are right every time we go up to

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the cupola you see that plaque there and

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that as well as scott uh for that matter

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in his quest for everest um so gosh i

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okay again speaking of expeditions you

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know try as i might when i've gone off

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on expeditions i have a really hard time

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finding things and like after two or

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three weeks my tent's a mess

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ground just a few minutes ago where you

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were looking for something and you know

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three different languages and you can't

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being in space and of course the best

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thing is floating it's pretty awesome

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stuff floating and you're right you

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can't just put something down because

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and just yesterday i lost a bag of

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coffee if you can believe it i just

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thought i velcroed it down and then it

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flowing in and out of the vents and

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things are velcroed on and somebody

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it's gotten better and better and you

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up to speed and it's it's really good i

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here i've really had a lot of luck

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finding anything that i'm looking for

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including all that stuff that we made

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those tools for the other day

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cape again and do you have any uh gorby

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avatars up there with you and i should

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he hangs out with me and uh speaking of

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coyote or my sleep station and uh he was

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uh what's with the toothbrush

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contraption that that's got to join the

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space hacker hall of fame along with

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this fly swat and the hockey stick

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people at nasa had a meeting or did you

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something and just sort of macgyver it

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just uh us guys up here you know we have

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supplies for uh people to come up for a

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while and be able to live up here for a

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while so we do have a little bit of a

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stash of toothbrushes and other things

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typical garage stuff when you're trying

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to clean out a bolt or trying to re-tap

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a bolt you don't want to damage anything

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guys who work in the garage got together

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thinking about how we're going to fix

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this bolt in this housing that just

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my husband has all these tools and uh

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you know from craftsman in his garage

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know when there's something broken we

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got to fix it and sometimes you don't

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have the absolutely correct tool because

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you didn't plan on it so you you make do

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sometimes you don't always you can't

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carry all the things that you want to

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carry and so you got to make do with

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a can of authentic bar harbor

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maine lobster and you did not use the

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little bib

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now it was that can just up there or did

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that was special ordered it was a gift

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from home i think you know i'm a i'm a

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lobster is one of my favorite foods in

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the world and uh my fa my parents and my

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sister know that um

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it would be hard for me to go you know

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with months without having lobster so

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they made sure that there was some up

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here for me and it was a nice

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celebration with all of us the six of us

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last weekend is probably our last free

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weekend

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with not you know not a lot of things

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going on uh so we had a nice little

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party together and i got to share my

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okay thank you very much for to you and

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all right keith thanks again great

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station this is houston acr thank you

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that concludes the event

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thank you