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hi welcome to the international space

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station flight control room we're here

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for a distance learning network event

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we're talking to 7th grade students with

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creighton middle school creighton meet

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clayton because here today we have nasa

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astronaut clay anderson clay had flown a

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five month tour 152 days aboard the

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international space station on

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expedition 15 and 16 in fact you

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actually replaced commander suni

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williams who's actually up on station

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for expedition 15 and he also flew

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aboard um the space shuttle during

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sts-131 welcome and thank you for coming

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hey thanks for having me he also did

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what three space walks well total of six

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total of six okay so the first one was

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first three were on expedition 15 and

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16. and um so he he has done it all

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right so uh we're ready for your

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questions guys

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all right we will go ahead and get

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hi my name is fantasia and here's my

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question what do the patches on the

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astronaut uniform represent

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hi vantaja it's great to see you guys on

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the camera by the way uh the patches on

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the suits represent several different

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things we have a flag to represent the

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country because now we're an

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international space station crew so not

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everyone is from the united states and

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then if you look at my shirt here you

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see a brief version of our expedition 15

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patch which is also

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symbolic of

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what we were trying to accomplish on

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station so what happens is the crew

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designs those patches and now we'll have

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a soyuz patch that represents the crew

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going up on the soyuz we'll have a space

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station patch

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for the first crew that comes to station

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and then for example with sunny williams

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now she had a crew

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previously before she became commander

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and now when she's commander they have a

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new patch so all the patches are

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symbolic of

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special activities that are going to

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mission that we're on or things that

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thank you

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my name is brianna and my question is

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can you build a fire in space

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brianna you can build a fire in space

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but you have to be very very careful

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when you do it and what we do when we

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do experiments to see how fire behaves

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in microgravity we have to enclose it in

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something that we call the microscience

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glove box so

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we do do flames we do burn things but

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it's very very controlled you don't want

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to have an out of control flame on an

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a very uh dangerous environment when you

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have flames going around so everything's

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good question do we have another one

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my name is dylan and i'd like to know i

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read that commander suny williams ran a

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marathon while she was on the iss

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how can you run a marathon in space

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hey dylan that's a great question you

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know i think sonny's a little crazy when

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she runs a marathon 26.4 miles is way

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too far for me to run i'd rather ride a

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the way sunny does it is that we have a

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treadmill on board the international

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the newer version and sunny wrote on the

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new version so she basically puts a

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harness on that holds her down to the

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treadmill and she turns it on and she

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simply begins to run and when she ran

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she started her uh run at the exact time

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that this the folks started the

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marathon on earth and so she ran her

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26.4 miles and then she provides them

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her time i think she might have even had

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an official number that she wore so

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sonny's a big runner and she loves to do

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things like that and fitness and

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just completed a triathlon so she

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pieces of gym equipment on board the

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station that involves a cycle a

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stationary cycle the treadmill that clay

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described and also an advanced

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resistive exercise device that simulates

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weightlifting here on earth

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swim portion of that triathlon so yeah

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sunny is very big into our fitness and

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fitness as you know is important here on

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earth but it's even more so in space

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absolutely and i still think she's crazy

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my name is lauren and here is my

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question when i do something that i like

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it seems like time goes by fast when you

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six hours or does it feel like it goes

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thank you lauren that's a great question

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i'm sure that you think when you're

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studying your homework at night that

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that goes by really really fast

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but a spacewalk you are so focused on

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accomplishing all the goals of that

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mission of that spacewalk and

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not making any mistakes right making

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sure that everybody is kept safe that

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all the equipment's protected uh that

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you do the right thing and the amount of

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time that's allotted so you're exactly

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it's a very enjoyable experience it's

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mentally tough it's not as physically

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difficult as it is when we train in the

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big swimming pool down here but doing a

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spacewalk in outer space it's a lot

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easier for your body except that you

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have to focus and concentrate so much

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more it's very difficult mentally but

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the time does just sail by you know

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you'll think holy cow we've only been

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out here an hour and they'll tell you

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it's quite a great experience i hope you

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uh my name is brianna and my question is

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hey brianna that's a great question i

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think you're trying to get me to tell

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you that when i was on the space station

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we tried to grow basil seeds and lettuce

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seeds and they started out growing and i

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ended up killing them all so i feel

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really badly about talking about plants

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in space but the russians

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in their segment that grew to be quite

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tall uh at least 12 inches so

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plants in space and it's very important

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mars or to an asteroid or to the moon

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the ability to grow plants to have food

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to eat or to provide oxygen for us which

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carbon dioxide so those are all three

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that's why we're looking at it so hard

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astronaut don pettit who was aboard the

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zucchini and the zucchini had a life of

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its own actually you can go online and

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zucchini on twitter believe it or not at

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earth when you see one

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tropical wave coming off the coast of

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africa so i saw those and then as they

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the united states i would see them

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develop into a tropical depression and

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hurricane dean caused the sts-118 crew

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space station they had to leave early

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five and it was bearing down on houston

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texas and all the folks in the mission

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control were worried that the crew might

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their families so what we ended up doing

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of our spacewalks short as well so that

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we could get things put together and

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they could come home so a hurricane is

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absolutely beautiful from outer space

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hurricanes can come and hit the coast of

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hurricane dean and you can see that

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video that clay actually um witnessed

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um my name is kara and i'd like to know

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is there such a thing as sports in space

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hey cara you're right up my alley with

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sports and space

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when i lived on the space station i took

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a college football from the university

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of nebraska which is where i'm from

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and i had a needle to inflate it and i

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would kick field goals at the camera so

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just like if you look behind my head

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camera views on board the international

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those cameras up to look inside the lab

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module so what i would do is t up the

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football because in zero gravity i

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just kick it toward the camera and then

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touchdown as if the field goal was good

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and i asked the ground team to keep

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score but they really didn't want to

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pitch and toss and catch and hit with a

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basketball and a nerf basketball hoop

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and fyodor yurchikhin who was my

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commander he and i we didn't play pig

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we played iss

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and the only way you could win iss was

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you have to be really good at banking

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the nerf ball off of the ceiling or the

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wall to get it to go through the

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basketball hoop

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there you have it creative play in space

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next question

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um my name is anna kaye and my question

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is ever get annoyed with your cabin

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and okay i uh i had great

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crewmates oleg kotov and fyodor

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yurchikhin were two russian cosmonauts

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they were great guys uh we had children

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that were approximately the same ages so

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we often talked about our kids

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we really didn't do any well i don't

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know if i did anything that aggravated

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them i probably did

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but

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the only things they would really do to

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aggravate me was they teased me a lot i

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would watch nebraska football games from

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space and on saturdays nebraska didn't

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have a really good year that year so

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olig would float down and he'd say he'd

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ask me how's the football going and then

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i'd say oh it's going okay because it

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was early in the game and then he'd

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float down later and he'd say hey the

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game's not going so good huh and he

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could tell by my face so they like to

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tease me about being

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an american who loved american football

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but

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for the most part we got along very very

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well they were my space brothers our

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nickname was three mushkitiri which is

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russian for three musketeers so

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i cherish that friendship with them and

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they're actually here in houston as we

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speak training for their next flights

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very good question do you have another

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my name is blair and here is my question

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when do you consider it night in space

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since there are 16 sunrises and sunsets

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every day

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well

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we don't have great windows in the

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station we do have the cupola now that

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we can go into

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and look outside but we really don't

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have night and day per se you're correct

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in that we have 16 sunrises and sunsets

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so if you count that as your day or your

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night we do have 16 day night cycles but

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from a crew perspective you're simply

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going by the clock so you wake up at six

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o'clock o'clock in the morning greenwich

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time you work all day and you go to bed

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about 10 30 at night greenwich time so

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you really don't think about

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whether it's night or whether it's day

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in terms of sunlight and darkness you

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think about it in terms of clock time so

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that's kind of how we cope with that in

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space

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so when you go to bed it's night

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yeah it's nice it could be daylight

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outside but it's night for us because

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it's night time right and if we were to

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sleep in a module that had windows we

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would have to block those windows with

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something because it's very unnerving

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when the sun hits the window when you're

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deep in your sleep and it might wake you

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up so and i imagine you don't have any

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trouble falling asleep when it's

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nighttime

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after a long busy day aboard the

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international space station great

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hi my name is janik and here's my

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question what's the most interesting

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thing you've seen in space

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oh that's tough the most interesting

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thing i've seen in space i would have to

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say

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uh when i was out on my

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see second spacewalk of my life

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i was able to fly over a place on the

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earth called dubai and you guys can

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probably go look at that on a map and

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there are resorts that they're building

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out in the ocean off the coast of dubai

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they're called the palm resorts and the

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world resort and the world resort is

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shaped like the continents on earth so

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you have north and south america

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australia asia africa antarctica

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and then they also have the palm resorts

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that are shaped like a big palm frond so

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you should go look that up on the

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internet and see if you can see pictures

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of that but when i saw that for the

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first time from outer space it was

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absolutely breathtaking and i got to see

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it again when i flew to space again on

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sts-131 we were out on our space walk

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and my partner rick mastracchio had

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never seen them and it just so happened

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we were waiting on the front of the

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station just hanging out and we looked

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down at my feet and there they were so

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rick got to see them on his space walk

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with me

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very good and not to commit you to do

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anything extra but

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clay is also on twitter and you can

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follow him at astro clay and he does

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have a little thing he does clay's pick

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of the day and perhaps he might

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tweet a photo or two of maybe dubai or

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or a hurricane or something again not to

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commit you to do something

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and maybe i'll even see if i can find uh

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where creighton middle school is in

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south carolina and see if i took a

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picture of that for there we go so guys

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go to twitter and follow him on astro

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underscore clay and maybe you can see

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those photos that he's talking about

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hi my name is youtube and here's my

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question when you come back to earth how

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long did you stay in bed before your

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body gets strong again

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well when i came back to earth you tell

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i didn't even go to bed for a long long

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long time that was one of the longest

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days of my life we had awakened on the

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shuttle right by our shuttle clock which

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is just like the space station

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so we awoke that morning and we had a

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long day to get ready to come home and

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land and then once we landed i still

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didn't get to go to sleep even though it

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would have been our

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night time to go to sleep on the space

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station or the shuttle i had to stay up

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i had to go into a room at the kennedy

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space center and i had to do a bunch of

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experiments where they were taking data

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on me and so by the end of the day

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the real day on earth it was 8 31 i

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remember my clock had the digital

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numbers 8 31 and that's all i remember

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because i just passed out at that point

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so

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that was the first time i got to go to

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bed

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next question

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and i was really tired

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my name is nicholas and here's my

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question what type of protective suit do

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astronauts wear to keep them safe and

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warm from the space environment

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good question uh inside you know we

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don't need to wear a suit we can wear

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shirt sleeve and shorts if we'd like

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because it's a balmy 72 degrees with 55

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humidity slight breeze from the south

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and no clouds if we go outside though

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that's a great question because anytime

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you're outside it's a vacuum right

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there's no pressure there's no oxygen

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there's no nothing so everything you

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need to survive has to be contained in

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that little spaceship that we call our

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spacesuit so the one that you see the

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astronauts in come out of the space

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station is the white suit and that's

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called our extra vehicular mobility unit

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which is basically a spacewalk suit but

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it has the ability to keep us warm or

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keep us cool it has water for us to

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drink and it also protects us from

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meteoroids that could hit us it protects

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us from the cold and the hot of deep

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space and it provides us oxygen to

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breathe and gets rid of our carbon

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dioxide so

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great question it's very very important

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that we are protected by our own little

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spaceship whenever we go outside because

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space is a really really dangerous

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environment

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very good question we have time for

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hi my name is christian here's my

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question what does the earth look like

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christian when i flew on the space

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station we always had to look through

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round circular windows so it looks

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simply like the earth through a circle

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but now we have this cupola and imagine

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that you can crawl into a big glass bowl

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and look any direction at the earth it's

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amazing you can actually see about a 3

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000 mile arc of the horizon of the earth

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and as you fly over florida and as you

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fly over the midwest or you fly over

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saudi arabia you can see so many cool

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things the colors are beautiful

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the clouds are beautiful everything is

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gorgeous and it's very hard to describe

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that view but it's actually

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the most beautiful thing you can imagine

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very few people have ever been able to

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see that so it's i guess a real honor

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and a privilege that you were able to do

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that i'm very blessed good question do

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hi my name is lane and i was wondering

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do y'all use a microwave and cell phones

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in space

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i wish we had a microwave dude that

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would be a really great way to heat our

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food we don't have a microwave per se

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but we do have a little

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food warmer that's like a suitcase that

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you put all your food bags in and then

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you turn on the switch and it kind of

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electrically heats up your food the

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russians have a different version but

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it's the same idea and they can put

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their cans in a slot and then those cans

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heat up through the electricity

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cell phones we actually do have the

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capability to talk as if we had a cell

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phone we have a computer program that

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takes our phone signal and i wear a

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headset just like i have on today and

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then i can punch in the telephone number

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on the computer and then that signal

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goes to the satellites in space comes

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down to the earth and then it's

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converted to a cell phone signal and my

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wife and family had that cell phone on

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them and whenever i called it said nasa

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and my wife always knew it was me and so

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she chose not to pick up the phone

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oftentimes but uh we had the opportunity

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to have lots of great conversations

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together as we chatted from outer space

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hi my name is my question what do you

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put in here what do you put inside your

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that's a loaded question um

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we drink a lot of

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water

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coffee tea

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and fruit flavored drinks when we're on

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the space station so all of its we don't

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really put anything into our drinks it's

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already done for us so all we have to do

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is take the packet which has all the the

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tea bag or it has the coffee grounds or

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it has the uh the tang or the fruit

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flavored drink we add the water shake it

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up and just drink it down so

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we don't have anything the ability to

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add something to that packet is not

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available to an astronaut once he's in

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space it's already done for us it's

547
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pre-prepared pre-packaged kind of like

548
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drinking a capri sun

549
00:20:23,350 --> 00:20:22,320
something like that

550
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and

551
00:20:27,510 --> 00:20:25,679
you get that from that potable dispenser

552
00:20:29,270 --> 00:20:27,520
that's how you get the water out into

553
00:20:31,430 --> 00:20:29,280
your right there's a machine on the

554
00:20:33,430 --> 00:20:31,440
station that we we stick a needle

555
00:20:35,430 --> 00:20:33,440
through the hole in the pouch and then

556
00:20:37,830 --> 00:20:35,440
we push a couple buttons and the water

557
00:20:39,909 --> 00:20:37,840
fills up the pouch and then you pull it

558
00:20:41,750 --> 00:20:39,919
off and it's sealed and you add a little

559
00:20:43,510 --> 00:20:41,760
straw that has a clip on it to pinch it

560
00:20:45,110 --> 00:20:43,520
off and then you shake it up good and

561
00:20:46,710 --> 00:20:45,120
you squeeze it and mix it up really well

562
00:20:48,789 --> 00:20:46,720
so that it all gets dissolved just like

563
00:20:50,870 --> 00:20:48,799
you do on earth if you mix some nestle's

564
00:20:52,310 --> 00:20:50,880
quickened milk or whatever and then you

565
00:20:54,149 --> 00:20:52,320
drink it down right and so if you've

566
00:20:55,830 --> 00:20:54,159
been following along the

567
00:20:57,830 --> 00:20:55,840
activities on board the space station

568
00:20:59,830 --> 00:20:57,840
now you would know that the commander

569
00:21:01,590 --> 00:20:59,840
suni williams and also hoshide had

570
00:21:03,990 --> 00:21:01,600
recently replaced the filter for that

571
00:21:05,270 --> 00:21:04,000
dispenser that he is talking about

572
00:21:07,270 --> 00:21:05,280
good question

573
00:21:09,909 --> 00:21:07,280
we have another one

574
00:21:13,669 --> 00:21:12,789
hello my name is rob and here's my

575
00:21:15,510 --> 00:21:13,679
question

576
00:21:18,230 --> 00:21:15,520
why don't you just build some more

577
00:21:21,430 --> 00:21:18,240
rubber notes to go up in space so you

578
00:21:23,669 --> 00:21:21,440
don't have to worry about your help

579
00:21:26,390 --> 00:21:23,679
now that's a really really really good

580
00:21:27,750 --> 00:21:26,400
question but the bottom line answer is

581
00:21:29,830 --> 00:21:27,760
money

582
00:21:32,230 --> 00:21:29,840
if we had the ability to to build the

583
00:21:34,070 --> 00:21:32,240
robots to do all the things an astronaut

584
00:21:36,470 --> 00:21:34,080
could do that would be effective it

585
00:21:38,310 --> 00:21:36,480
would be safer to keep a human being

586
00:21:40,549 --> 00:21:38,320
from having to go outside in this nasty

587
00:21:42,149 --> 00:21:40,559
environment that we call outer space

588
00:21:45,270 --> 00:21:42,159
but

589
00:21:47,590 --> 00:21:45,280
a robo knot or a robot can't necessarily

590
00:21:49,590 --> 00:21:47,600
see things and think of alternative

591
00:21:52,070 --> 00:21:49,600
solutions like a spacewalker can for

592
00:21:54,789 --> 00:21:52,080
example imagine that a robot's out there

593
00:21:56,149 --> 00:21:54,799
and he gets to a bolt that he can't undo

594
00:21:58,950 --> 00:21:56,159
just like we had recently on our

595
00:22:01,350 --> 00:21:58,960
spacewalks and maybe he can make his

596
00:22:03,830 --> 00:22:01,360
wrench turn harder or turn faster or

597
00:22:06,950 --> 00:22:03,840
whatever but he can't think of ways

598
00:22:09,430 --> 00:22:06,960
to cleverly clean out the hole or to

599
00:22:11,110 --> 00:22:09,440
change the way he's doing something to

600
00:22:12,789 --> 00:22:11,120
to make it

601
00:22:15,430 --> 00:22:12,799
available to him to actually complete

602
00:22:18,070 --> 00:22:15,440
the task so the ability for a human to

603
00:22:19,190 --> 00:22:18,080
think and to reason is one of the

604
00:22:21,669 --> 00:22:19,200
important

605
00:22:23,270 --> 00:22:21,679
realities of why we want humans in space

606
00:22:25,270 --> 00:22:23,280
astronauts can do many things they can

607
00:22:27,190 --> 00:22:25,280
do many good things for us they can

608
00:22:29,510 --> 00:22:27,200
scout ahead and look at landing sites on

609
00:22:31,270 --> 00:22:29,520
the moon or in an asteroid or mars and

610
00:22:32,789 --> 00:22:31,280
those will be excellent uses of robotic

611
00:22:34,950 --> 00:22:32,799
technology but there are just some

612
00:22:37,270 --> 00:22:34,960
things that a robot can't do that a

613
00:22:38,950 --> 00:22:37,280
human can do and when you couple that

614
00:22:41,590 --> 00:22:38,960
with the expense that's required to

615
00:22:43,590 --> 00:22:41,600
build a small army of robots to do

616
00:22:45,110 --> 00:22:43,600
astronaut work outside the station we're

617
00:22:47,029 --> 00:22:45,120
moving in that direction but it's going

618
00:22:48,950 --> 00:22:47,039
to take a little bit of time and some

619
00:22:51,190 --> 00:22:48,960
more money and i think we've been able

620
00:22:53,029 --> 00:22:51,200
to demonstrate just the usefulness of

621
00:22:54,710 --> 00:22:53,039
robots or robotics even today we had the

622
00:22:57,750 --> 00:22:54,720
deployment of the

623
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the uh small satellites that were

624
00:23:01,110 --> 00:22:59,760
launched using the remote manipulator

625
00:23:03,990 --> 00:23:01,120
system this is the robot arm the

626
00:23:06,149 --> 00:23:04,000
japanese robot arm outside of kibo which

627
00:23:08,630 --> 00:23:06,159
is the japanese experiment module and

628
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then also um they'll be spending

629
00:23:12,789 --> 00:23:10,720
actually sunny and um

630
00:23:14,710 --> 00:23:12,799
hoshide are actually doing a training

631
00:23:16,070 --> 00:23:14,720
session today using the robotics

632
00:23:18,710 --> 00:23:16,080
workstation

633
00:23:21,270 --> 00:23:18,720
where they will use the station arm to

634
00:23:23,909 --> 00:23:21,280
eventually grapple the dragon spacecraft

635
00:23:25,909 --> 00:23:23,919
that is scheduled to launch this sunday

636
00:23:28,310 --> 00:23:25,919
so you guys come back and watch

637
00:23:29,590 --> 00:23:28,320
nasa tv you can watch it

638
00:23:31,750 --> 00:23:29,600
here live

639
00:23:34,390 --> 00:23:31,760
beginning at 6 pm

640
00:23:35,430 --> 00:23:34,400
central time and you can see robotics in

641
00:23:37,669 --> 00:23:35,440
action

642
00:23:39,270 --> 00:23:37,679
eventually when that spacecraft arrives

643
00:23:42,310 --> 00:23:39,280
to the space station it is scheduled to

644
00:23:43,190 --> 00:23:42,320
arrive on october the 10th so obviously

645
00:23:45,029 --> 00:23:43,200
there's

646
00:23:46,710 --> 00:23:45,039
several ways and and reasons to have

647
00:23:48,390 --> 00:23:46,720
robotics work with us but obviously we

648
00:23:50,230 --> 00:23:48,400
need humans

649
00:23:51,669 --> 00:23:50,240
to be involved in that in space

650
00:23:53,750 --> 00:23:51,679
exploration as well good very good

651
00:23:55,350 --> 00:23:53,760
question do we have any more questions

652
00:23:59,029 --> 00:23:55,360
good homework assignment for creighton

653
00:24:02,390 --> 00:24:00,710
any more questions

654
00:24:05,029 --> 00:24:02,400
one of the questions that a lot of the

655
00:24:06,870 --> 00:24:05,039
students had was what was the scariest

656
00:24:10,950 --> 00:24:06,880
thing for you being an astronaut and

657
00:24:15,430 --> 00:24:13,029
uh the scariest thing

658
00:24:18,549 --> 00:24:15,440
uh i think was when i woke up one night

659
00:24:19,350 --> 00:24:18,559
and saw olig in his underwear but that's

660
00:24:20,149 --> 00:24:19,360
okay

661
00:24:23,990 --> 00:24:20,159
um

662
00:24:26,230 --> 00:24:24,000
they train the scared out of us they

663
00:24:27,990 --> 00:24:26,240
train the fear out of us you're so

664
00:24:29,990 --> 00:24:28,000
ready to do all the things that you need

665
00:24:31,909 --> 00:24:30,000
to do your mind is so focused on step

666
00:24:32,789 --> 00:24:31,919
one step two step three step four step

667
00:24:34,549 --> 00:24:32,799
five

668
00:24:37,190 --> 00:24:34,559
that often times

669
00:24:38,549 --> 00:24:37,200
if there were fear to be had uh you're

670
00:24:40,789 --> 00:24:38,559
not really thinking about it you're

671
00:24:42,230 --> 00:24:40,799
focused on something else for example

672
00:24:43,510 --> 00:24:42,240
when i opened the hatch for the very

673
00:24:45,909 --> 00:24:43,520
first time

674
00:24:48,710 --> 00:24:45,919
in july of 2007 to go out on my very

675
00:24:50,310 --> 00:24:48,720
first spacewalk i wasn't scared at all

676
00:24:51,830 --> 00:24:50,320
there was no fear

677
00:24:53,510 --> 00:24:51,840
what i thought when i looked out in the

678
00:24:56,789 --> 00:24:53,520
blackness of space was

679
00:24:57,990 --> 00:24:56,799
i was born to be here right now

680
00:24:58,870 --> 00:24:58,000
doing this

681
00:25:00,390 --> 00:24:58,880
and

682
00:25:02,870 --> 00:25:00,400
i don't know if everyone experiences

683
00:25:04,789 --> 00:25:02,880
that feeling or or thinks that way but

684
00:25:06,789 --> 00:25:04,799
for me there was no fear there might

685
00:25:08,070 --> 00:25:06,799
have been a little anxiety right about i

686
00:25:09,590 --> 00:25:08,080
don't want to make a mistake i don't

687
00:25:11,990 --> 00:25:09,600
want to screw up i hope everything goes

688
00:25:15,350 --> 00:25:12,000
well but there was never any fear

689
00:25:17,190 --> 00:25:15,360
involved um and to follow up on that i

690
00:25:18,070 --> 00:25:17,200
actually thought about death

691
00:25:20,870 --> 00:25:18,080
more

692
00:25:22,390 --> 00:25:20,880
the second time i flew on sts-131 as we

693
00:25:24,470 --> 00:25:22,400
were preparing for the final days of the

694
00:25:26,470 --> 00:25:24,480
mission and getting ready to launch that

695
00:25:28,789 --> 00:25:26,480
was when i wondered was i cheating death

696
00:25:31,190 --> 00:25:28,799
you know had i i had my shot on

697
00:25:34,230 --> 00:25:31,200
expedition 15 and should i still be

698
00:25:35,669 --> 00:25:34,240
going up on sts-131

699
00:25:42,070 --> 00:25:35,679
and it's just something you have to you

700
00:25:46,149 --> 00:25:44,870
any other questions

701
00:25:47,510 --> 00:25:46,159
i have a question you're going to change

702
00:25:52,230 --> 00:25:47,520
the name of your school to clayton

703
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:56,149
thank you very much

704
00:25:59,990 --> 00:25:57,990
all right well clay and amico we would

705
00:26:02,070 --> 00:26:00,000
like to thank you so much for joining us

706
00:26:03,750 --> 00:26:02,080
today i know taking time out is very

707
00:26:06,070 --> 00:26:03,760
difficult especially how busy you guys

708
00:26:08,390 --> 00:26:06,080
are um they're in mission control uh

709
00:26:09,830 --> 00:26:08,400
monitoring the space station and we'd

710
00:26:11,269 --> 00:26:09,840
like to thank you actually creighton

711
00:26:13,190 --> 00:26:11,279
middle school do you have any final

712
00:26:14,870 --> 00:26:13,200
words that you'd like to uh say to

713
00:26:20,710 --> 00:26:14,880
clayton

714
00:26:23,830 --> 00:26:22,549
my pleasure