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station this is houston are you ready

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houston station i am ready for the event

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cbs this is mission control houston

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please call station for a voice check

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station good morning this is cbs news

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cbs

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station here's your loud and clear

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welcome to the destiny lab well and good

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morning from florida commander ford it's

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peter king along with uh bill harwood

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and uh this is our chance to wish you an

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early merry christmas and that's a great

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way to start off

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our chat this morning you know everybody

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from year to year seems to be pretty

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curious about what

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the astronauts and cosmonauts do for

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christmas aboard station things like

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your meals traditions

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gifts that sort of thing so tell us a

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well i have in my uh stash somewhere uh

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some things that people put in crew care

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packages for me that you know we're uh

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don't open till christmas kind of thing

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so i have that waiting for me

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and uh a special treat this year is uh

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the crew of 33 33 s soyuz to join

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expedition 34 will be launching from

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kazakhstan just a few days and actually

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arrive about the 21st of december so

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it'll be like

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santa you know coming up the chimney

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when they come through the lock and

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arrive on board so it'll be good to see

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them on board

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we have some special food set aside and

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one of the bags for christmas day and

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we'll we'll have a holiday that day so

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that's how we'll celebrate on board

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maybe a few decorations around i haven't

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strung the lights outside yet nasa

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and of course right after christmas uh

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come the big college bowl games

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for those who are not aware uh we know

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that you are not just a native hoosier

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but a notre dame graduate and uh with

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your school playing in the bcs

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championship game i know you're looking

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forward to that i'm just wondering are

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you going to be able to listen to that

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well peter and nowadays we have on

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occasion the chance uh if if the data

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rate's low for science and that sort of

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thing to get streaming video up here

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through net meeting the same way we do

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video cons and this sort of thing so it

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comes up to us and we have some breaks

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and coverage but i have been able to

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watch several of the football games this

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year not just notre dame games but a lot

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of college football games we were

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watching some navy when sonny was up

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here as well so it's a lot of fun to

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watch those and i i hope to be able to

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watch that game i looked at the timing

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it's really bad timing because it's a

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monday night it'll probably start here

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going to be up all night watching that

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game so houston if you're still paying

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attention i'm probably going to need uh

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well kevin this is bill harwood at

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kennedy space center you know as a long

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time sec fan i i have to tell you

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there's a nine point spread right now in

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favor of bama you you feel like making

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and uh i think if we can keep

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keep the scores low we have a chance i i

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believe it's anybody's game both teams

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are excellent i watched them both i

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watched the alabama georgia game as well

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fantastic teams it's just it's going to

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be a great event and i'm really looking

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forward to it i get to spend a lot of

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time chattering with the people in

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huntsville and so we get to talk about a

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little bit on the loops too so it'll be

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it'll be a great day

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kevin let me change gears a little bit

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in one of the more jarring segways of an

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interview like this

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yesterday the the national research

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consensus as they put it on where we're

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going to an asteroid hasn't generated

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much widespread support in the public

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and even at nasa and i know you haven't

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it you're focused on your work up there

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asteroid is a very very challenging

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the there are people who are much bigger

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experts on it than i am the ease of

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getting there the ease of getting back

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asteroid operations and they're they're

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practicality of doing those sorts of

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things than i am i've really really been

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focusing on space station racks uh

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maintenance and those sorts of things

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know put a plan uh materialize a plan

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and and kind of get going on of course i

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think we all agree on that that we need

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a good plan and we need a good target in

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order to move move forward in the right

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way so i'm looking forward to getting

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that out there on the table and getting

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you know it seems like you know it's

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impossible in today's environment to

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pressures that are out there to get the

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absolutely you know that the technical

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pilot operational by background and and

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difficult in itself nowadays the

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consensus we know it takes a long time

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the the turnover rate of of politics

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the road even a thousand years down the

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road and making these first steps so

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interested in working on when i come

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home finding a way to get a consensus

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finding a path forward and making it

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work and i know there are some experts

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kevin it's peter again and you mentioned

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deep space even back to the moon or

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thoughts on that and uh you know should

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shuttle we're going to look back on as

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an absolutely outstanding program root

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hard parts and we keep solving problems

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program that that proved very very

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fruitful if you will the space station

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with an astronaut and cosmonaut ours

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go those long distances and spend a lot

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than kind of we envision so we we move

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forward to the moon it's moon's kind of

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in our backyard it's a great place to go

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back and practice if we do we decided to

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uh our our eyes are bigger than our

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pocketbooks or or then our abilities

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those lines right now there's a huge

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financial crisis in washington and uh

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we're uh less than four weeks from going

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off the so-called fiscal cliff and that

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affects every government operation i'm

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wondering if you have been told to get

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ready for any changes in operations for

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much about that to be honest you know

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before and and things have worked out uh

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prepared for a one year flight you never

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know what could happen in terms of

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vehicles or uh finances and stuff so you

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know if if something happens and we stay

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we'll continue continue the operations

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we've got experiments going literally

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above my head and beside me and out in

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the japanese lab and in the columbus lab

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as well as destiny here in the russian

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segment i think those will continue and

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we'll we'll be fruitful that that's

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kevin it's bill harwood again and uh you

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mentioned the year-long flight with

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scott kelly and and uh cornyinko and you

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know julie robinson the program

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scientist we were talking about uh you

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one-year flight and she said one of the

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things that tends to offset that a

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little bit is it's just really cool to

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that you've been up there now for

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little disoriented i'm in my sleeping

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bag but i can never quite figure out

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which walls which and then i realize i'm

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module and it's still dark because i've

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being here every single day i know my

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days are numbered here even though i

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still have roughly 100 of them left as

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soon soon enough it'll be over and it'll

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look back in and it'll be like a dream

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scott and and misha have both been here

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before they know exactly what they're

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getting into the exercise equipment is

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fantastic the psychological support now

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we get from houston and for moscow are

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also fantastic and i can watch football

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games after all so you know it's it's

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really great being here there are

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certain things you miss for sure and i

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think the fact that they come here

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knowing they're staying a year for those

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two individuals it won't be it won't be

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a real psychological hardship it will be

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uh something to prove that we can do it

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with the with the right individuals in

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the right preparation

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kevin thank you so much uh from both of

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us and from cbs news merry christmas and

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we look forward to talking with you

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all right well thank you very much too

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it's great to be here

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i'm really here

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at station this is houston acr that

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concludes the cbs portion of the event

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please stand by for a voice check from

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copy that

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excellent carol costello is your anchor

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carol she'll say hello now we're in a

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i copy that

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do you hear me

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yes i can we were a little afraid that

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we wouldn't but we're so glad to have

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oh you're welcome am i speaking to carol

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yes but we're not on the air quite yet

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we have um another minute or so and

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we'll be live on the air so stand by and

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okay happy to stand by you should take a

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about 20 seconds back on break

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all right here we go

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how would you like to have a view like

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this out of your window

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isn't that beautiful it's a nighttime

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image of earth see north america in the

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upper left corner of your screen that's

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cool pictures actually some positive

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images received by a satellite from

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april and october kevin ford doesn't

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have to wait for nasa to release

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pictures like that he sees views from

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space every day kevin is the expedition

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34 commander of the international space

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station just a warning before we start

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speaking kevin i just want to tell our

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viewers it's about an eight second delay

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because we're transmitting a long way

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this morning so um is it morning or

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it's uh already afternoon on board the

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space station and uh we've already done

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a almost what feels to me like a full

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day's work but i have a little bit more

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work after the uh interview right now so

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uh right now uh we are in a night pass

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we're in the northern hemisphere right

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now out over the pacific ocean and it's

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it's dark outside right now but uh we'll

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be in light in just just a matter of

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i was just going to ask you that how can

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you tell the difference between night

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and day because you know in my mind it's

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this space is dark but of course when

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we're on the sun side of the earth we're

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in full illumination and we have all the

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uh reflection of the earth below us the

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beautiful blue earth and uh we're in the

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daylight only when we're on the back

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side on the center opposite the side

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opposite the sun it's it seems just like

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night to us too but we go around the

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earth once every 90 minutes so

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half about half of that on average and

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we're in the daytime and half at night

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inside the destiny module right here in

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the lab i can't really tell there's a

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window below me but there's equipment in

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it and it's covered up so i can't see

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out of it at the moment we do have some

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other windows around space station

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anytime i float by a window i can tell

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if it's out outside is lit or if it's

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dark outside but when we're working

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it's just day for us with that with the

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i know i should ask you about your

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research but i but i really want to know

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what is the coolest thing you have seen

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well the coolest thing i've seen so far

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in terms of like me being an astronaut

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and seeing something unusual

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was the the rendezvous the docking of a

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progress spaceship we also saw it launch

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out of kazakhstan right behind us it

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rendezvoused with us the same day so it

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was very close to us when it launched

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and we could see the smoke trail come up

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all the way into space to our altitude

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which is really a remarkable thing to

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get to see and it's rare and the other

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thing was the night my colleagues suni

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williams akio side and yuri malenchenko

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undocked a few weeks ago

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they did their burn and they entered the

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atmosphere right below us in the night

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time and i got to see their their

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spaceship it comes apart by design into

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three pieces and i got to see the pieces

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that were supposed to burn up burn up

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and trail behind them and their little

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spacecraft zoom out in front but that

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that all uh that all kind of competes

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with just the average everyday view of

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the earth which is spectacular whenever

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you fly over anything the amazon the

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rocky mountains uh the northeast

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whatever it is just to see those

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beautiful things out there i saw typhoon

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bofa the other day it's just amazing to

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so so the uh scott kelly i know he's

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training for a bit before he before he

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goes up to the international space

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station but um did you hear that he's

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going to be there for a year i don't

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know how long your tenure is in the

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international space station but can you

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imagine staying up there for one entire

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yes i can

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and actually when we come up we we

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generally come up here for five to six

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month expeditions

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and might will be a little just a little

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less than five if we go home one time

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march 15th but um i've mentioned to my

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cosmonaut colleagues hey be prepared you

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know something might happen a technical

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problem

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any kind of thing might happen and we

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may stay here longer we could get a very

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long stay you just never know in space

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flight it really depends on the health

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of the vehicles and the program

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management and all that sort of thing so

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there's a little uncertainty involved

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but five months you know you're mentally

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prepared for that i know scott and misha

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konyenko when they come they'll be

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mentally prepared for the full year

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do a great job the exercise equipment is

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good i sleep wonderful the work is very

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satisfying and fun so

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i i would love to do it too uh i

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congratulations to both of them it will

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be challenging but i think they're up

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okay before you go could you do a

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backflip for me because i've always

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wanted to see that the real thing in

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are we all done already i can't hardly

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oh i love that we'll be right back a

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you're welcome