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station this is houston are you ready

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and the international space station is

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ready for the event

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collectspace.com this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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station this is collectspace.com how do

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i got you loud and clear how do you hear

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loud and clear

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great to talk to you this morning sunny

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thanks for taking a few minutes of your

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time out to uh

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to answer some questions um

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and to jump directly into that

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you've been on board the iss for about

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three months

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if and if i did my math correct i think

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you you're within four days of your

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100th day aboard so congratulations

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uh by now does the station feel like

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home or are you staying at someone

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else's home or is it a really unusual

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hotel are you camping out at work inside

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it's definitely

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our home at this moment in time

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you might see my hair has grown a little

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bit longer i think i'm getting used to

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being up here and the long hair is is

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good with me so i think i think it's

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it's our home at this moment in time you

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know we have our little things scattered

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here and there and we know where they

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i think we have to clean up before the

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next crew comes here just like when you

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have visitors at your house you want to

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probably take this weekend or the

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the tv show the big bang theory recently

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had one of its characters fly to their

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version of the space station which to

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their credit look very much like where

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you're floating now

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uh one of the comedic story story lines

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was that the character desired gravity

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after being weightless for so long have

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floating around and i think you know the

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mindset really is you know it's not

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going to last forever ever so

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flying around as much as possible

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there are subconscious things that catch

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falling asleep without laying down on a

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bed or having a pillow um still every

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now and then you know you take a bag of

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nuts and go like this you know like hold

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it up in the air to fall in your mouth

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and that's not gonna work so

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some of those little subconscious things

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catch you off guard but um you know

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being in microgravity and flying around

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in space is priceless and uh i mean i

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think uh we're cherishing every moment

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you'll be on space station until next

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month and that'll be just over four

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months and you previously spent six

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months aboard on a prior expedition

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nasa and its international partners have

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now approved uh for a future crew to

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spend a year up there from your

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perspective what are the challenges you

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think that crew will face would you feel

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on the space station it is a great place

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to live and work and you know since this

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uh subject has come up and i've heard a

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little bit about it and heard some of

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the science objectives and things like

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that that are associated with it

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there's lots to do here there's science

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the house you know every now and then

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something breaks uh there's crews and

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human side of it what happens uh to the

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human body over that long of a time you

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to figure out um you know every step of

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love to do it i know there's other folks

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in the office who would love to do it

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planet for a year this close would be

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space november 2nd will mark 12 years of

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continuous human presence on the

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what in your opinion have we gained from

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as it plot as it applies to the future

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wow that's a great question you know i

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was lucky enough to be at the launch of

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to the international space station and

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so i can tell you just from personal

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relationships with people and

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partners from all the different agencies

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we've come a long way we've uh you know

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before and building the space station

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each other really well

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as as international partners for sharing

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learning from each other how other

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personal feelings is you know when you

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leave the planet

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being you don't necessarily leave it as

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a guy from this country or that country

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to other planets a little bit away from

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spacex dragon capsule and it's now

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famous ice cream delivery

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and you and your crew would do a

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halloween day delivery by a russian

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progress spacecraft given that were

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there any other surprise treats or

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tricks you found while unpacking the

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dragon or treats you're hoping to find

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on the progress when it arrives october

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holidays just because it's a lot of fun

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it's exciting so we're hoping

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that we open the door and there'll be a

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little bit of treats in the progress

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uh national talk like a pirate day so i

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think we'll uh we'll all sit we're all

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space walk your second during this

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expedition but this one to repair an

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training on the ground is it

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substantially more difficult than

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undertaking to get ready for while in

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space and how challenging is this repair

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these things but luckily there's a team

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of people on the ground that are doing

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astronauts are in the neutral buoyancy

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lab going through the procedures that

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how we might get there as we call it

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translate there and and then

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review all of the procedures and

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understanding about what the eva is

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there's more things up here that

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surprise you than not so our

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the biggest benefit that has got us

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ready for any type of surprise that we

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might have to handle and tackle out

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there along with the of course the

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talented group of folks on the ground

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who are thinking of every little

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three but you'll soon be joined by

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another three crew members how eager are

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you for their arrival and are there

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it always adds a little more dynamic

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atmosphere when people are flying around

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and forth but that makes it fun um being

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everything down made things a little bit

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more relaxing um uh even though we still

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had some dynamic ops but we're ready for

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our our guests and the new residents of

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the international space station kevin

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oleg and evgeny it's going to be great

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to have them up here and like i said

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all ready for them

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his crew are also 32 fish for jack says

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aquatic habitat um reading your blog you

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seem to like checking in on the spiders

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that are now earthbound on spacex's

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dragon are you anticipating the fish

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aquarium over in the japanese module

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yesterday azaki was setting it all up

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uh animals and so i'll be really excited

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to see them and see how you know they

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change and they grow or how they develop

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and and what we can learn from them

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because uh you know part of them coming

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up here is is of course not just for our

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entertainment but they are a science

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experiment it will be very interesting

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and what happens with their muscles up

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here and could and you know enlighten us

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to some of the things that are going on

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with our own selves so yeah i'm psyched

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that they'll be here and you betcha

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you'll you'll hear about them in my blog

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well thank you for uh taking the time

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today been great talking to you and

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thank you is always fun

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station this is houston acr that

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thank you collect space station please