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huffington post this is mission control

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station hi at the huffington post uh how

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we got you loud and clear up here how do

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you sound great thanks so much what a

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well first of all records are for other

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me potentially setting records is uh is

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a call for others to come after me and

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break my records um i was lucky enough

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incredible conversation with you on the

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thank your time's up i really appreciate

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huffington post thanks for your interest

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first question was what's it like being

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the commander what has changed in your

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life

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uh day to day on the station now that

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hi bill great to hear your voice too and

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hello peter it's great to hear your

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voice uh thanks for uh coming on board

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the station with us today um a little

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bit of a difficult question you know

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we've got a pretty tight crew up here we

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were six and now we're three and uh

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i guess i'm the commander of the three

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of us you know it's an interesting thing

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i think more of it as a team you know

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yuri has got all sorts of experience in

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space aki's flown in space before and is

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just awesome so

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it's hard to it's hard to see myself as

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being you know the commander in charge

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of everybody like i said it's more so

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we're a team and we did a lot of that uh

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you know roles and responsibilities

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getting to know each other and how we're

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going to work together a little bit more

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on the ground

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and so we are prepared and ready to come

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up here and work both as a crew of six

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with our previous crew a crew of three

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now and then a crew of six with the new

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guys that are coming up uh in another

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month or so

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so um i had my one

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bit of commanding on pirates day which

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happened to be my birthday and uh uh i

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made everybody come have dinner together

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and so that was my my big first command

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but other than that i think we work

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together best as a team

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thanks a lot i appreciate that um one

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more for me real quick you know sonny if

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they're at their post landing news

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conference gennady padalka and sergey

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krikalev were asked about the

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feasibility of you know having somebody

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on the station for up to a full year at

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a time and gennady was kind of negative

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saying that he thought there needed to

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be some habitability upgrades for that

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to happen and sergey said that he

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thought it was a good idea and that

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there's a lot to be learned by doing

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that what's your cut on it you've got a

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lot of space experience what are the

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challenges in spending a year and what

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if anything do you think would need to

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well you know it's an interesting

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question it's um i think for personally

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it's a it's a little bit individual like

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uh you know what what your expectations

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are about being on the space station for

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a whole year uh i've been up here you

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know six months before and then a couple

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months now already and uh still gonna be

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up here a couple more a month and a half

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or so more

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i love every minute that i have up here

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and i think that's the attitude that

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people have to come into it with was is

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that you only have a limited amount of

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time in space and although a year seems

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long it's just one year

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i think people could definitely do it uh

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i don't know all the ins and outs all

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the details of the science that they

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expect to get out of it of course every

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step that we make for longer and longer

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of people being in space is going to

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give us a little bit more knowledge on

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what happens to people and if it's

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feasible for people to go further and

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further um you know take the trip to

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mars and back which is going to be

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pretty long so you know there's probably

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science benefits to it i think living in

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space for a year could definitely uh is

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feasible and

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the iss is a great place to do it

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there's science experiments to do

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all the time there's

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always things to do up here so i don't

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think people would get bored i can't

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imagine getting bored up here

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sonny it's peter and following up on

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bill's question if they told you hey

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we'd like you to go back up again and

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you will stay a year

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absolutely you know um like i said it's

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it's a small amount of the time of your

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life and uh you know if there are if

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there are science benefits that could

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come out of that uh you know for sure

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and um you know all the time that we

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talk about oh we might get delayed

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coming home you know this this group of

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people right here is pretty excited

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about staying up as long as we can uh to

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help and do any type of any any research

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that we can so

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yeah i think it would be great i think

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it would be a lot of fun uh you probably

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see a bunch of different crews coming

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through too and that's always

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interesting to get

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a new perspective new people coming up

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and see what see how their uh how they

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are adapting and how their opinions are

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of it so that that would make it a

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little exciting as well one of the nice

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things about living someplace where

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everybody wants to visit you know five

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years ago for you it was the boston

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marathon aboard station a few days ago

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you ran the malibu triathlon and i'm

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wondering is it easier or harder to do

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these events in space than on the ground

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so they both have their challenges you

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know i i've run a couple marathons back

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on earth and every single time i sort of

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ask myself it's you know that 20 mile

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mark what what am i thinking um but you

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end up finishing it anyway that happened

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up here as well the same type of thing

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both in the boston marathon and while i

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was doing the triathlon i was what was i

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thinking this is crazy but um you know

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it's a little bit mind over matter uh

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and to prove to yourself that you can do

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stuff you know for me i think it's one

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of those things i think physical fitness

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is really important for kids

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to start off with that mindset and it's

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one of the

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really the reason that i did both of

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those events is to sort of highlight

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that you know astronauts actually have

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to work out quite a bit too

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every single day to equal what happens

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on earth and it's just a good lifestyle

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and it's what people should do

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so it's they're both interesting i think

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both of them are hard up here uh you

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know you don't have gravity to work

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against but you have some equipment

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that's not really quite comfortable and

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you're not on your favorite bike or in

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your favorite parish running shoes or

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you know uh swimming where you love to

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swim so um so time goes by a little bit

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slower maybe up here and some of these

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uh uh pieces of equipment so both are

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both are difficult

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you know we're in the middle of an

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election year of course and uh i i'm

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wondering how much you're able to follow

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the candidates what they are doing and

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will you be able to watch the debates

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well you know we do get news up here and

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so we are able to keep up with what's

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going on and what

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people's opinions are and so that's

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that's good we also do get streaming tv

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on occasion primarily on the weekends

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it's a little distracting during the

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week but the weekends when we have a

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little free time

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we usually watch football but maybe

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we'll put on some of the debate debates

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uh we had the olympics on earlier in the

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year of course and so

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we'll we'll try to keep up but

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for me

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i am a florida resident i already voted

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so i already sent in my vote as an

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absentee ballot uh earlier

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as per the regulations so um i'll watch

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i'll see if i voted correctly

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i you know i asked about that process

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and from in florida we don't really have

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a a process for that in texas they do so

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people if people are texas residents

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they can vote for space but i'm not

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absolutely familiar with that process

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just because that didn't apply to me

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sonny's bill harwood again let me

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squeeze in one more

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station related question i know you

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don't pay much attention to records but

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you are now the most experienced female

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space walker according to my records

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anyway

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and so you're a good one to ask this

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question too you know the second by

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second kind of training that went into a

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shuttle space walk versus the way you

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all do it now for a station how is that

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how's that working i mean obviously you

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guys pulled off an incredibly

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complicated eva recently but how is that

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more open-ended sort of training working

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yeah it's a it's a lot different mindset

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actually station evas um we get a

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limited amount of spacewalk practice on

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the ground before we um come up here

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because we only have a limited amount of

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time in our training template and we try

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to hit all of the big things and the

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things that they predict could break and

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and the things that we might be able to

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go might have to go outside and fix

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however there's always surprises and

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something different always happens and

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so you don't get all of the specific

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training that you might need

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so it's a lot of work

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for the guys on the ground primarily

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because they're coming up with all the

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subsequent scenarios and what we call

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crib sheets of things that could happen

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when we go outside there's a lot of

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studying on our part as well

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but we're sort of following their

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direction and based on our skills

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going out and doing the space walk i

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think it's working out pretty well i

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think it's the way of the future you

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know we're not going to know everything

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that goes wrong when we do

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potentially mars walks or moon walks in

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the future

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and we just got to be able to have the

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skills and then be able to adapt

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hey one last one for me and it's a

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simple one what's the most fun thing you

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it has to be flying around that's

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absolutely the most fun thing you know

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you you at first when you get here you

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start flying around it's really unique

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and it's

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fun and interesting and then you sort of

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forget about it because you're working

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all the time but every now and then it

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snaps in your mind as you come zipping

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around the corner flying up to the

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cupola and it's just like being like

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superman so you know flying around is

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absolutely the most fun thing looking

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out the window is the most spectacular

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thing

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being outside during a spacewalk and

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looking all around you and both flying

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around and looking out through your

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helmet is just just amazing so

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i don't know there's so many great

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things about being up here but flying is

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cool sonny thank you so much for the

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time this morning it's always a pleasure

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and we'll look forward to talking with

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you again either from up there or when

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thanks bill thanks peter

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station this is houston acr

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thank you huffington post and cbs radio