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for the event Houston stations ready for

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the event center for research on stem

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teaching and learning this is Mission

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Control Houston please call station for

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moisture station this is still water

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middle school media specialist Quinn

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Baldwin Oklahoma State University how do

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you hear me I hear your lad and Claire

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all the way from the home of the Cowboys

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welcome aboard the International Space

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my name is Kate and my question is do

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you ever have fears or get nervous about

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very much all of us who fly up here into

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space we study a lot about getting to

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space and coming home from space and and

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the the factors the safety in space and

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there's a lot to it it's a complicated

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program there are certainly risks

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associated with writing a rocket up here

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and writing the spacecraft back into the

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atmosphere and being in space for this

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long but we have a lot of mission

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support on the ground who watches out

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for things like micro meteorites and

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orbital debris and stuff to try to keep

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us safe and do so thorough analysis of

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all of our flight dynamics that we

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really we really have a good safety

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record and I don't think about it on a

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day-to-day basis but I appreciate that

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it's it is a little bit out of the

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I'm saying I wondered what what's the

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best thing about being in space well I

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think the very best thing about being in

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space is being far enough away from the

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earth that you can see how how it's

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really a big sphere you can see the

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blackness of the universe you can see

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how thin the atmosphere is and you get

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to go around the earth once every 90

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course of just a few days and so that's

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really a magnificent thing there are a

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lot of other things about being up here

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it's really fun to be in this working

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environment in this research environment

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and then it's also of course very fun to

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be in microgravity and float around

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too so those are all kind of toss ups

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hi I'm Carson what happens if somebody

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cosmonaut crewmates all of us have

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operational military backgrounds none of

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us are really doctors so we get a lot of

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training before we come on medical

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procedures right behind me here we have

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a board should somebody need to get

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all the time instantly surgeons on the

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ground flight surgeons who can come to

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our aid and help us with video and talk

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come home just about at any time we need

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to so we're fortunately pretty lucky we

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have a pretty good safety record up here

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hi my name is Maci and I wanted to know

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what made you want to take this

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opportunity well I just kind of evolved

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pilot in the Air Force and I became a

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test pilot and I was really interested

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in how the very very most intricate

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nuances of what made aircraft fly and at

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a half a decade or so the Space Shuttle

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opportunity was there so I really

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thought the Space Shuttle was a

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fantastic machine and wanted to fly it

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so I came to NASA first to be a space

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shuttle pilot and then this opportunity

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to do a long-duration mission presented

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itself after that and I got to tell you

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spend a long time up here and enjoying

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what made you want to work with NASA and

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why well almost anywhere I go in the

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world people know who NASA is it doesn't

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matter what country I've been to some 40

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foreign countries and they all know NASA

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reputation we've had and in the past

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there there's just so many so many

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intricacies with exploration that NASA

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takes care of for us they're all about

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our future and pushing out into a to a

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region that you know we wouldn't have to

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do it's not essential but it's essential

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to our future I think so it's really

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doing something special for the future

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of humankind so I love NASA for that

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do you ever goof off and flew around

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the opportunity sometimes in the evening

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just just to float maybe we'll the

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crewmates my crewmates and I will go

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meet up at the window and just spend

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some of the modules come together that

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have big volumes and we'll get in there

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things is in the middle of the night

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station just to float around in here

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just really quietly I don't have to

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worry about Mission Control calling me

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because they think I'm a slave and I can

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just enjoy peace and quiet and floating

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it's just a surreal experience to be

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my name is alex and i want to know as

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future educators what should we be doing

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to inspire our students to pursue stem

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many subjects as you can all people find

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different things interesting and you

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never know what might spark a student's

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interest I have always felt when since

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I'm so interested in flying and space

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that we could do more in our curricula

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in schools for example teaching a little

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bit about flying and aerodynamics for at

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travels on aircraft and as far as i know

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teach people about how aircraft really

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work what really keeps them up there

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keeps them up and the airspeed and those

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kinds of things that i think should be

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learned at a basic level to spark

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interest and then maybe perhaps in in

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the astronautical field too because it's

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very interesting it's not super hard to

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understand it's just that you have to

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spend some time looking at it and try to

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understand it to spark an interest but

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hot hi I'm Ali and I was wondering do

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you believe NASA will soon create

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technology that will allow us to go to

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different solar systems and different

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we'll do it because we have a long long

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future ahead of us and what we're doing

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at NASA is so unique we can look at new

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propulsion technology as new material

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technologies human presence in space how

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to do environmental control for human

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life support in space so what we're

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to do those kinds of things now those

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places are really far away right now

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it's anema Matt it's unimaginable that

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we we might do it someday but the same

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can be said for you know 150 years ago

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that about flying just flying an

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airplane so things can change very fast

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my name is Emma and I'd like to know if

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it's more difficult to sleep in space

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honest it's much easier for me to sleep

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in space than it is to back home there's

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no point in rolling over you're not

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walls some little doors you float inside

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lighting we have a computer that we can

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tied to the wall and I just put my feet

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is well ventilated and I just float to

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sleep almost touching nothing and that's

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my name is Molly and I would like to

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know what is the hardest thing about

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adjusting to the astronaut diet and what

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food in there but we the drinks are

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edible and you would enjoy eating it too

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have something carbonated and something

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hot something with fresh vegetables

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habitats if there is one thing you could

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change about the ISS what would it be

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directions and have have a lot of good

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views I guess that might be one thing

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future will have that in it so you don't

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fantastic place to live and work and I'm

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anything right off and it's a great

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my name is Bryce how do you get supplies

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and natural resources to the

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International Space Station oh that is

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an excellent question because we're in a

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vacuum up here well away from Earth so

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nothing can get to us except by rockets

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few people have to launch them so in the

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u.s. we have a resupply commercial

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resupply system now called dragon and

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we're going to have one called the

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Cygnus upcoming as well that will bring

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up supplies to the space station and

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then in some ways in a limited way we

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can bring some stuff back to because if

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we bring experiments up here and we do

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do something maybe we'd like to bring it

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back to earth to look at it or bring

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back a broken part because we don't know

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why it failed so on the Russian side

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they have a progress spacecraft that

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comes every few months and bring

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supplies brings food and gases for us

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like oxygen if we need it and those

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kinds of things that we need in water

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and more fuel for our space station too

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so that's how we get resupplied through

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hi my name is taylor and i was wondering

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and has anything ever gone wrong on the

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International Space Station and if it

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this is a very complex system so I could

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say something goes wrong maybe not every

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day but pretty close there's a little

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malfunctions we use a lot of computers

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we have really we push the edge on

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technology up here so we really want

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things to go wrong because we put stuff

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up here to test it and to experiment and

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so that's the way you learn by trial and

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error so when things go wrong we can

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analyze them figure out what it is and

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go on to to fix them and make the

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systems better for those explorations

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since I've been here we've had some

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trouble with our toilet we've had some

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trouble with our treadmill we've had

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some pretty significant trouble with

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some of the computers but specialists on

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the ground have analyzed them and fixed

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them all up so it's on a daily basis for

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troubleshooting something up here but

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what life support hi I'm court and I was

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wondering what life support technologies

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does the ISS have and how long do they

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well we we kind of recycle through the

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different resources for example we can

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use water to make oxygen again and we

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can scrub co2 out of the air and mix it

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with water to reclaim some of the oxygen

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out of the co2 because co2 has has

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oxygen in it as the name implies and

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then we can turn co2 and water into a

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combination of carbon and hydrogen and

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make methane and we can dump that

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overboard we don't really need that

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another thing we do is we just recycle

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water on board we take the water that we

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collect out of the air because there's

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always humidity in the air astronauts

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breathing and systems and so forth and

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there's a collection of water and the

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condensate collectors as we cool the air

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and also we collect our urine and then

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we reprocess it and take everything out

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of it except the h2o and then we send it

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right back up here to my spigot so I can

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drink it again so we claim the water so

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those are all things that are being

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tested up here and they work great we we

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my name is Juan Z and what is the most

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the most exciting machine i use well the

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space station i like to think of it as a

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really big machine it's got thrusters

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solar arrays control moment gyros that

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help us control our attitude all lots of

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experiments on the outside a robotic arm

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to move things around it's got an

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airlock that allows us to go out and do

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spacewalks but that's what I love about

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this business is there are so many

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machines so maybe some of the coolest

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site I just had the opportunity to fly

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the big robotic arm today it's set some

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50 feet long and it's got all these

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joints and we can move it all around the

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space station like an inchworm a space

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suit is really a cool thing that we have

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up here it's it's own little spacecraft

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if you will it's got communication and a

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cooling system electrical power system

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and systems to allow you to get work

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done outside so we have a lot of really

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cool systems it would be hard to pick my

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favorite i love the Rockets so the

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spacecraft getting up and down so that's

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that's probably one of them mice most

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my name is Zack and my question is what

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are some tasks or jobs that you have a

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well the the job that we we want to

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spend the most time doing and then I

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spend right now I spend probably a

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little less than half of my time because

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them I'm the only u.s. astronaut on

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board right now I'm waiting for a couple

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more crew members to get here but our

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most important job is to do the science

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and we have all kinds of science racks

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all around the we help set them up and

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then the ground can remotely do some of

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the science so we have hundreds of

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experiments going on all the time but my

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work also includes maintaining things

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taking care of myself keeping the space

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station clean and right now I probably

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spend a little over my half half of my

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time doing those kinds of things when I

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have two more astronauts on board then

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we'll have two extra bodies to get all

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that science done so we'll be back up to

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a complement of three u.s. OS astronauts

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three Russian and we'll have lots of

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hi I'm Brennan and I was wondering what

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well we spend some of it communicating

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with friends we spend some of it just

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taking care of little things around the

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spaceship just like you would would at

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home we get together and socialize in

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the evening when we can and we now have

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technology they can send a little TV up

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so I get to watch a little bit of

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college football and professional

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football if I want to and whatever else

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happens to be on so people take care of

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us so we have we always have something

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to do in our off time if if we want to a

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very favorite pastime though is of

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course going in looking out the windows

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trying to take pictures of your hometown

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and places you've been before and that

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sort of thing so that that's what we do

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in our spare time here knowing that we

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only have a limited time here and then

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Thank You mr. Ford

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well you're very welcome i think i heard

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a thank you does that mean we're going

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to have to conclude today yes that was

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our last question thank you so much for

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answering our questions and good luck on

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the International Space Station okay

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well thank you very much just just to

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prove I'm going to play a strange place

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here I'll just do a just do a little

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somersault for you and say goodbye and

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have a have a great holiday season and

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thanks for coming on board the

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International Space Station bye-bye

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station this is Houston ACR thank you

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that concludes the event thank you and

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thank you Center for Research on stem

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teaching and learning and students