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so station this is Houston are you ready

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Houston this is the International Space

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Station we are ready for the event

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ABC News this is Mission Control Houston

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please call station for a voice check

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station this is ABC News how do you hear

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me I got you loud and clear Lisa how do

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you hear me up here on the International

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Space Station you sound like you're

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good morning thank you for talking with

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only - oh it's my pleasure and we're

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only 220 miles above the earth so we're

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not that far away just going sort of

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absolutely beautiful just like everyday

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up here it's a it's nice to see the

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earth and the clouds down below getting

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to the point that I sort of miss a

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little bit of rain but every day is a

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beautiful day up here now you you

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snagged a dragon yesterday tell me about

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some of the cargo and I understand they

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that's a fact actually golden hands aki

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hoshide he was at the controls and and

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grabbed the dragon and and then we

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brought it close in too close next to

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the space station and then I got to

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actually berth it so that was pretty fun

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a lot of cargo you might see behind me

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the white bags right behind me is all

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the cargo this is a crew care package

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which brought which we got we also got a

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little dessert just like you said got a

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little ice cream so we're looking

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forward to having that tonight we just

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unpacked it this afternoon so we put it

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in our refrigerator here waiting to have

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yeah it's quite a treat we don't usually

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dehydrated that we're hydrating so you

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know homemade ice cream is something

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special and we're gonna have a little

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party we you know Aki and I were telling

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Yuri about it last night and tonight's

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our dessert night so we're in the middle

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of an election here how are you going to

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well luckily I was able to be an early

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voter so while I've got in sort of right

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under the wire while we were in

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Kazakhstan in July I actually submitted

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my vote double envelope tit my husband

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took it home and his this and sent it in

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for me so luckily I already voted will

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see if I made the right choice do you

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actually you know I'm military I'm a

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Navy guy so I spent some of my my

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earlier days in Florida so I've been a

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Florida resident since I was like 20 so

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I'm a Florida guy and they have absentee

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ballot voting for military and so that's

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how I actually got my ballot very cool

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how would you compare this day on your

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had before this is your second hitch up

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you know last time was really dynamic

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because we were right in the middle of

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building the space station and you know

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I thought this time would be a little

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less dynamic maybe and a little bit more

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concentrated on science and that it is

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for sure every day is a little bit

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different doing all sorts of amazing

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science experiments from fire to

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capillary action to medical experiments

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and I thought that was gonna be really

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exciting and it is but then on top of

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that we are doing some pretty dynamic

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operations since we've been here we've

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had an HTV a Japanese cargo vehicle

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arrive and release it we've had progress

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come and go we've had Soyuz come and go

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and now we have dragon coming and going

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as well as we did a couple EVs and there

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might be another one on our plate coming

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up in the next two weeks as well as the

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rest of our 33 crew which is coming up

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pretty crazy it's been one thing after

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another I think it's the the next step

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in space exploration to make it almost

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not necessarily routine but almost a

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very action-packed and that's what

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should be expected you're like a giant

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truck stop in space but let me ask you a

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minute about your triathlon what what

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prompted you to do a triathlon floating

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that far above the earth well you know

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was a swimmer and I think that really

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dictated a lot of you know my

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personality about being maybe a little

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stubborn a little bit persistent and you

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know in knowing how to win and knowing

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how to lose and I I really think sports

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are good not only for your house but

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just for you know professional physical

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development and and trying to figure out

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what some way in my lifetime to

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emphasize that to kids and you know last

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time I was up here I ran the Boston

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Marathon cuz I'm from Boston and this

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time I was offered an entry into the

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Malibu triathlon by dr. Sanjay Gupta so

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how could you say no you know I was a

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swimmer when I was a kid running just

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comes naturally and biking up here in

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space is sort of a standard so why not

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hopefully some kids picked up on it and

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maybe get interested in triathlons and

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sports you just had someone float behind

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you there by the way and obviously I

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know you couldn't swim but you simulated

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swim with a machine that you have up

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called the advanced resistive exercise

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device and people say how can you lift

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weights in space and this device allows

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equivalent and so it really provides a

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good load bearing exercise for your hips

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abdomen area really those are the parts

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that we lose bone density and muscle

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mass and so it's really good and then

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shoulder press bicep curls you know

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routine of about 15 of those exercises

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was a that was a good swim equivalent I

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that you can see the seasons change from

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up there tell me about that what is that

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where you're from and so I was looking

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hemisphere and I could see everything

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turning bright green and that was really

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cool because it was like oh it's

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springtime and it's summertime and this

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time I didn't even think about it I just

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darker green like it is in this you know

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browner and I think you know maybe part

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definitely a reddish tinge in the more

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those turning green green green and you

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cloud coverage and in the world when the

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fall so it's obvious from up here the

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tilt is changing other interesting

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you so much we are unfortunately out of

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you and I know you missed that cup of

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coffee I'm having mine now I hope you

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get yours soon when you get back to

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thank you very much and I'll wait for

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that cup of coffee floating in space is

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pretty fun station this is Houston ACR

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that concludes the ABC News portion of

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please stand by for a voice check from

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station this is CNN how do you hear me

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see CNN we've got you loud and clear

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from the International Space Station how

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do you hear us I hate this fine

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we just got into a commercial break so

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we'll be up with your live interview

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with Don Lemon in three minutes his name

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okay copy that Don Lemon

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funny hello this is Sonny's this dawn

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yeah how are you I'm doing great up here

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how are you doing down there I am so

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excited so excited to have you I love

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it's it's like an afro you were might

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you look like you could be related to me

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and I'm african-american well I'm

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letting it grow you know I got it cut

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right before I launched and I had really

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see what it looks like it's getting a

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little bit weird but it's but it's still

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fun I'm so excited I can't believe that

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the technology is amazing I know we've

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done this before but every time when I

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see it or I get to do one of these

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interviews I just it's unbelievable did

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you ever think in your wildest dreams I

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know that you wanted to be an astronaut

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but did you ever think in your wildest

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dreams that you'd be doing what you're

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doing and whatever and physically where

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you are right now at station heck no you

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love animals and you know that was sort

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of the thought in my mind my father's a

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doctor and you know never thought about

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being an astronaut I never met an

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astronaut never knew an astronaut and

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until later in my life when I was a test

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pilot and so there's no way that I

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thought that I would be up here on the

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International Space Station with you

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know partner cosmonauts and astronauts

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you know catching spacecraft and doing

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EVs it's a it's a dream come true hey

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Sonny just so you know because it's such

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a huge Delaine if something happens if

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you can that was great but just you know

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if you can keep your answers brief so

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that I can jump in and ask you a bunch

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of questions because people want to know

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so much about you but there's a giant

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delay here so it needs to be mindful

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that I'd really appreciate it okay will

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standby so excited right now you have to

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watch this look at that behind me that

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space we're gonna go live to space right

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now there are some very happy crew

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Station this morning yesterday they

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successfully captured the first

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commercial cargo ship to deliver

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supplies clothing science experiment and

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much more space station commander is

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Sonny Williams she helped to slay the

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dragon and she joins us now live from

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is an honor to talk to you it's really a

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special treat also and ER I understand

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some ice cream arrived for you guys as

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well yeah we had a special treat

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yesterday yeah and not only did we get

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the dragon but we also got a whole bunch

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I've got to ask you when I see you there

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look at that

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oh that's pretty cool when I see you

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there did you ever imagine in a million

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years when you were a child and even

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growing up that you would be doing what

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you're doing now in space at the

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International Space Station no you know

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we'd never crossed my mind that I would

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ever be an astronaut I had never met an

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astronaut never knew an astronaut but

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you know after being a professional

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pilot and test pilot I finally met some

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people who were astronauts and

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understood hey you know or thought to

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myself hey maybe I could do that because

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yeah it does look like a whole lot of

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fun you know the I keep looking over

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because there's a bigger monitor here

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and I'm wanting to look at you you know

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the dragon spacecraft marks the

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beginning of a really new evolution for

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space flight private companies now

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taking over the work that that

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government did before what do you make

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absolutely you know a company a little

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competition is really good because it

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makes people a little bit better at what

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they're doing and now that we have a

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commercial spacecraft coming up here to

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do the resupply NASA can actually

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concentrate on other stuff going beyond

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low-earth orbit making a big rocket

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to potentially get us back to the moon

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on to Mars more into exploration and so

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yeah commercial companies coming up to

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the International Space Station I think

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is a great idea we talked to you said

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never in a million years you would you

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imagine that you would be doing this you

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want to be a veterinarian only a handful

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of people can say they have they have

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been the commander of a space station

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you're a woman that is definitely an

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accomplishment what does that like to

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you I mean is there a mentor here the

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mentor or hero that you have that you

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aspire to be like what is it like for

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you well you know it's a little bit

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humbling because I don't really think of

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that stuff too much in that context are

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you I think I just think of it as doing

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my job and there's definitely people

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ahead of us who have paved the way of

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course the late Sally Ride you know

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Peggy Whitson the chief of our office

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was also Space Station commander so

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really great people out there who have

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you know been there done that and made

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it look easy and so made the open the

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doors for all the rest of us to just

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jump in there and say you know I could

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do that too so you know I think it's

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more of you just do your best that you

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can do hopefully you become a role model

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for somebody else who says you know oh I

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I'm like that person I understand that

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person I could be just like them and do

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do the same things that they're doing

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okay so I understand we only have about

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20 seconds left before the satellite

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goes out so listen people may not know

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that you still get to vote in the

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election so I'm sure you're gonna vote

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they may not get that and what's the

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favorite ice cream flavor which one of

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you have you been eating yeah I voted

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early voted because I'm a military guy

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and of course vanilla good old-fashioned

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vanilla is my favorite because then you

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honey Williams thank you no we joked

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before I love the hair dude I said you

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could be one of my relatives you got a

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little afro going there thank you take

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it easy be safe and we're very proud of

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thank you very much it's got a lot of

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body station this is Houston ACR thank

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you that concludes the event Thank You

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