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nation this is Houston are you ready for

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houston the station is ready for the

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CNN this is Mission Control Houston

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Jason this is CNN how do you hear me

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we've got you loud and clear dr. Gupta

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how are you I'm doing great how are you

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it's been a little bit busy the last

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couple days but we were definitely

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managing some time to work out and and

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stay healthy

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Oh gravity is exerting its effect on us

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here on earth and but we're doing well

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can you just spend a minute just telling

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us where you are right now well you

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could probably say see I was looking

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around my shoulder here we have a

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program called world map that tells us

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right where we are so we're right

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actually off the coast of California

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probably a little far off the coast

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about one orbit so about 15 degrees off

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the coast so it just became sunrise on

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the International Space Station we

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actually have a window right below us

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too but it's doing some scientific

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observations so we don't have it open

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all the time we have a window around the

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corner which is probably lighting up

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that module over there as the Sun was

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just coming up absolutely amazing I

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think about you every time I look up

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into the sky I want to start off

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commander by just congratulating you on

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doing what we believe is the world's

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thank you you know when we met a little

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while ago I was feeling good because I

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was on the ground practicing running

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biking swimming and feeling real good

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about it then after coming up here your

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body starts to change and I was thinking

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those I might have second thoughts about

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this triathlon thing but worked out for

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a while leading up to it and felt pretty

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good doing it up here too so thank you

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for the congratulations obviously saw

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how you were going to do it there using

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the swim machine and and literally using

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bungee cords for example to to bungee

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yourself down to the treadmill and even

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on the bike obviously you have a bike

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there that you can ride your time with

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you know I have to say this and in all

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fairness your time was very fast I think

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about 10 minutes faster than mine here

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on earth did that surprise you at all

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how fast you went well you know I was

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just trying to get through it you know I

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had our astronauts strength and

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conditioning coaches and trainers have

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an advanced resistive exercise device to

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simulate the swim and my shoulders and

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my biceps and my abs and also my legs of

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course we're pretty tired after that and

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tired getting on the bike but I knew I'd

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sprint workout one of our fast running

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workouts as part of the the four miles

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for the run and I think that made me go

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a little bit faster at the end I was

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definitely thinking about you when I was

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doing the race you were wearing the same

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number that I was wearing and again I

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just think it's an amazing thing to

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think that I was doing that on earth and

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you are cruising around in there doing

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the same thing so congratulations again

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I do want to ask you about your health

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fascinated by is how you maintain sort

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of your exams up there doing ultrasounds

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for example of your heart doing ice can

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example how that works yeah you know

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of this stuff because you know when

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we're up here not everybody's a doctor

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there's no doctors on board you know we

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have a pilot engineer and then two

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pilots and an engineer for example and

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so this is not our natural expertise but

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how to use the ultrasound and then sort

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of what we're looking for and we have

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remote guiders on the ground that helped

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us and so they're able to see through

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the ultrasound machines both here when

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the Columbus module doing our leg muscle

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ultrasound and also we're doing our I

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alter sounds so there's different

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specialists on the ground and know the

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specific things that they're looking for

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when we're using it but we definitely

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need their help it's pretty it's pretty

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fun the the cardiac ultrasound we do

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both resting as well as while we're on

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the bike and so it's pretty interesting

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to get to know all the different parts

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some of that technology and my

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understanding Joseph Lee's blood and

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urine samples as well to be analyzed how

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does that work it and how is everyone

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doing up there so that's yeah that's an

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interesting concept you know it's it's a

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bathroom it has a pump in a machine that

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urine collections you're essentially

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pushing the urine into a urine

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the sample in and then we have minus 80

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metabolism for both urine and blood up

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hygiene compartment so you can turn

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specific things that you like and

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issues high sodium bone density muscle

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foods are good for you and so in the

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bonus containers as well as the other

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new crew coming I think but I think

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the next thing to look at I mean I think

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time and looking for the next big event

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next crew coming up so psychologically

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the next thing and then planned for the

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long term just to hang on for the long

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term as you know all that all the events

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well thank you so much you don't have to

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pay again honey since we met every time

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I look up in the sky I think about you

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doing all this important work I must say

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together now at some point and while it

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earth I was thinking if you could

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you can make that happen well we'll talk

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that we do on earth and then we'll see

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when the next people will be coming up

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change your perspective and it's a

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beautiful beautiful place we live but

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it's good luck

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be safe up there and hope to see you

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absolutely thanks again for callin

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thanks for your interest in the space

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program the station this is Houston ACR

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that concludes the CNN portion of the

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event please stand by for a voice check

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from New York Times station this is the

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we've got you loud up here loud and

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clear up here at the International Space

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how science has changed well let me

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busy it was pretty interesting and neat

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goal and purpose but now we've sort of

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shifted and we're into utilization as

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they call it and so we're using this

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laboratory and hopefully coming up with

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some good discoveries and some

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advancements for the future spacecraft I

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do describe what your typical day is

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like I'm laughing a little bit because

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every day is is different and it's hard

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to it's hard to tell you a typical day

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but in general you know we get up around

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6 o'clock we have a tag up with all of

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our control centers around the world

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here in Houston and Moscow in Munich in

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Japan and in Huntsville which is the

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head of the payloads and we just try to

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have an understanding of the things

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we're gonna do that day and that might

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be science experiments it might be

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robotics work getting ready for a

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vehicle that's coming to join us it

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might be getting ready for an Eevee a it

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might be getting ready for an ultrasound

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it might be doing some physical fitness

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activity might be wearing a cardio press

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in support of a

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you know another experiment that we're

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doing so it's every day is pretty

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different and I think that's one of the

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really cool things about working in this

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laboratory you're sort of a

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jack-of-all-trades and in it's sort of

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fun we spent a day working on the toilet

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the other day and that was not expected

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so every day is different and every day

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is fun um what's your most memorable

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experience on ISS Wow

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hard to say you know everybody talks

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about spacewalks because they're just

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incredible of course you know we've got

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a cupola that has a great view but when

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you're out on a spacewalk and you have

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your helmet is really the only thing

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between your eyes and the rest of space

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that's that's pretty priceless

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we've had a you know two spacewalks

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during this increment so far and when we

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were when we finally got the main bus

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switching unit the mbsu the big

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electrical box put in that was pretty

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momentous and so I think that's probably

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the highlight so far I what was most

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the toilet ranks up there definitely Aki

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and I were talking about it the other

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day and we definitely won't lap take our

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our toilet for granted anymore you know

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at home you know you just go in and use

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it in here you get into the habit of

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just going in and using it but when it

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breaks that's that's bad news you know

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we have luckily a backup which is nice

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but it's always good to have your own

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fixed and ready to go but really the

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most unexpected thing and it should be

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expected by now is every every time you

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expect something something changes you

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know we had a little glitch when a TV

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was supposed to leave and you know we

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all thought that was gonna happen and it

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didn't happen and when a HTV left it

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left fairly fast faster than we had

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expected so I think one of the things

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we're starting to get used to is mostly

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things are unexpected up here and and

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that's what we're trained so thoroughly

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for um a couple weeks ago you became a

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commander of expedition 33 what exactly

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so that's a good question there's three

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of us now and they will be six of us so

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I I guess you would say you'll be in

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charge of three and then in six but

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really I think more importantly was our

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training on the ground and getting to

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know our two teams and actually the the

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group before us too when gennady padalka

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was the commander our three teams our

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crewmates getting to know each other and

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taking a little bit of responsibility to

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make sure that everybody knows each

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other's personalities and knows what to

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expect when we get up here because

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really when we're up here it's such a

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small group we're more of a team than a

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commander and then people who are you

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know under the commander so I feel

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pretty happy and maybe you leaving a

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little bit proud that our groups of

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people up here have got to get along so

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well and work so well together so I

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think that's partially the work on the

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I think I worry a little bit more than I

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did last time you know but but all in

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general not really because you know you

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get up like I mentioned the typical day

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and you have tasks on your schedule you

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think about the big picture a little bit

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about what what is going going to happen

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down the line making sure you know

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everybody's tasks are a little bit equal

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and nobody's overworked and stuff like

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that but in general it's it's it's

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business as usual but like I said I

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think I worry a little bit more how do

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you feel about being the second woman to

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command ISS this is expedition 33 and it

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seems like for you to be second distill

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disparity there you know I never really

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thought about it too much until people

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start talking about it I think it's just

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a natural progression as there's you

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know probably about 30 percent of the

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women and then us astronaut office

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thirty percent of the astronauts in the

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US astronaut office are women so it's

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it's good it's bound to happen it's

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going to happen

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I hope you know pega did a great job

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before me I hope that I do a good job

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that people say you know this that's

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just you know ops normal that's just

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business as usual and nobody even thinks

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about it I think that's the best

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compliment for for being one of the

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first or seconds do you see yourself as

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all right well I hope so you know the

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things that I've got to do have been a

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little bit of luck a little bit of

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persistence a little bit being in the

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right place at the right time but I

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think overall I hope that I've become a

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little bit of a role model and women and

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young girls who never thought they could

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do this stuff look at me and can relate

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to me and think wow I'm just like her

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then if I want to be a station commander

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I can be a station commander if I want

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to be an astronaut if I want to be a jet

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pilot I can do that so in that regard I

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really do hope I am a positive role

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model so last time you ran a marathon

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and this time you just did a triathlon

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is easier doing in space land on the

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ground you know everything's a little

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different on the ground things some

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things are harder in space some things

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are harder when it comes to physical

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fitness I think that's that's exactly

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the same thing maybe some somebody would

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think it's easier up here just because

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you don't have to fight against gravity

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and actually running hills on earth is

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very a little bit more painful than

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running hills on in space but the

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equipment up here is tough to get used

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to it floats a little bit so you have to

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get used to that you're wearing a

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harness or you're clipped in or the

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machine is moving because it's a

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vibration isolation type of system like

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our advanced resistive exercise device

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and so all that getting used to it it

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sort of equals I think the difficulty on

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on the on earth as it does in space so

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both have their challenges both are

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different and I'm lucky that I've got to

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be one of those people that can actually

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compare though to what are your career

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plans after you get back to earth that's

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a good question I don't know well I

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think we'll see where the what we're

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doing and at NASA I'm it's looking like

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we're gonna have a heavy-lift rocket

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that's going to take people to different

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places beside for the International

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Space Station beyond but we'll have the

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International Space Station as well as

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our international partners so you know

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for the next 10 years or so I love this

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business it's a lot of fun I'd like to

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stay in the space business but one day

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when I grow up I think I would like to

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teach junior high science so we'll see

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what happens I don't know I'm getting a

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little bit older again a little bit

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grayer got to open the door for the

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generation behind me so I'm not really

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sure what exactly I'm going to do thank

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you for talking with me I enjoyed it and

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thank you very much it's been a pleasure

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and again appreciates your interest in

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the space program and the international

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space station station this is Houston

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ACR that concludes the event thank you

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Thank You CNN and New York time station