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alicia simpson and happy holidays from

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happy holidays

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we're ready for your questions whenever

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you are questions whenever you are sure

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we'll i'll have our first student come

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up and our first student is olivia

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hi

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olivia

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we're having a hard time hearing you so

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you guys need to speak up a little bit

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we can see you here as well but i think

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we already know what your question was

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olivia did you ask me about their family

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about their family

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yes i did

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okay um

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it's it's kind of you know it's

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challenging for them just imagine if you

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were away from your family for long

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periods of time so uh but we have really

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good things in place here at nasa for

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them to be able to uh do video

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conferences with them like you're doing

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with me to be able to call down and talk

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to them on the phone so they're they're

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always in contact with their family but

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you know no one wants to be away from

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their family for a long period of time

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but we make sure that they are able to

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the really cool thing is that we have so

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many different ways of communicating

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with the crews now on orbit that we have

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way a lot of parents keep in touch with

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they've grown up and gone away to

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college and the like

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we've got special sessions where we use

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uh net meeting kind of uh like a

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facetime or a skype where they can talk

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the time that they're doing that

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and they have a telephone up there that

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has an ip phone where they can actually

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they have chances to communicate both

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visually through writing and through

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audio means and so it's a little bit

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like being away on a long business trip

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for the crews and so they miss their

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families and their families miss them

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but they still have lots of

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thank you oh you're welcome

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we have our next uh student jordan perry

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i'm sorry i didn't hear you could you

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and i think she said how does the

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spacesuit work

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that's a fairly loaded question it uh

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kelly do you want to try to tackle well

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the spacesuits we use for the u.s

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spacesuits first of all there's a u.s

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spacesuit a nasa space suit we call the

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extravehicular mobility unit and there's

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a russian one that we call the orlon

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essentially what they are is a personal

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space that you would need if you were

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space station in the first place and so

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what you've got is you've got a inside

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the space dude you have a liquid cooling

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delivery system so that they can take a

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pressure for them and it also provides

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of thing uh and then uh the gloves are

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make these gloves protective enough but

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also nimble enough that you can do a lot

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of the the tight work that you have to

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electrical connections or connecting

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regular routines follow-up yes okay yes

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regular routines yes they're daily

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have meetings and figure out what the

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mission control be so directly involved

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in everything that the crews do on orbit

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the crews like to be somewhat autonomous

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learn how to do that

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farther out into space there are delays

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treadmill system on board the space

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station and they updated the procedure

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when there's a vehicle that can bring it

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the nutritional components of their

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food that they eat affect their

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long-term health and their reaction to

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health and that their bones don't

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space station tomorrow and so whenever a

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things so we don't know exactly what

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they're bringing but we know that the

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crew that's on board is going to get

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some special holiday surprises

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yes i'm sure there'll be maple involved

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oh maple that's right he is from canada

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the question is how do you keep the

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astronauts from feeling lonely or

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oh wow yes they are because they are

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able to speak with their families and

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and there's more than one of them on

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board at all times you know there's

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always constant interaction with one

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another um they have what's called like

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a crew webpage and they're able to

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select movies and you know some of their

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favorite movies and television shows

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that they like to watch here on the

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ground they're able to do that and read

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you know newspapers and

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they're able to still kind of keep up

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with world events and everything so they

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don't feel you know too isolated you

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don't want them to feel like they're

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completely out of touch and so there are

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ways we have a group a whole team of

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people that their job is to make sure

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that the crew doesn't feel lonely or

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isolated while they're in space right

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and they also have regular conferences

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with for example their boss here at the

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ground bob bacon is the leaf

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astronaut and he has a regular

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conference with the crew and then you

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know we work

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in shifts here in mission control but

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for every expedition uh there is a lead

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flight director and chris edelen is the

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lead flight director for expedition 34

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right now and he has a weekly tag up

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with them and he can actually bring

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friends and and colleagues that are

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particularly close to the crew members

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in and they do a two-way conversation

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just like this where they can see and

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hear each other and do that so in

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addition to keeping them up together

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with their families they also have their

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friends and colleagues that they work

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with day to day an opportunity to get up

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there and one other thing they have is

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they do have access to the internet

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directly

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it is uh not the fastest uh uh

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uh

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communication line that you've ever seen

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uh but they can actually go out and look

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online and they could even

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order flowers for their wives uh for

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their anniversary or send down a special

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birthday present

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through one of the online ordering

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thank you

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you're welcome

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okay we're gonna have the students speak

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a little bit closer to the computer i

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think that will help you out a little

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bit

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hi my name's kristen and my question is

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oh gosh i don't know exactly how many

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okay generally there are about 20 or 30

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people in here uh during a normal work

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day shift for the crew uh the crew wakes

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up about midnight houston time

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uh and then they go to bed around 3 30

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in the afternoon houston time

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and so from those periods we have a full

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team of flight controllers here and

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that's around 20 or 30 people and then

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there are some additional folks that are

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in support rooms that are nearby here

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that provides specialized input to the

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team here that's in what we call the

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front room

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and then we also

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have

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an opportunity to pull in specialists

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from the research area and principal

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investigators and those folks mainly

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come in through the payload operations

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center in huntsville alabama where nasa

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has the marshall space flight center and

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they coordinate all the research

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activities so there's lots of different

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hi i'm matthew

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what type of experiments are done on the

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there are some you know there at any

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given time there are between 150 and 200

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different experiments going on the space

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station some of them involve crew

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involvement some of them are done by

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investigators here on the ground working

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remotely

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there are three different laboratories

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on the space station there's the nasa

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destiny laboratory there is the european

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space agency's columbus laboratory and

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there's the japanese space agency's kibo

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laboratory and kibo means hope in

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japanese and so we have all these

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different experiments and there's a an

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international space station program

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science office that is based here in

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houston and they work with the folks at

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the marshall

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in huntsville alabama to coordinate all

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the different experiments and among the

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experiments they do a lot of it is is

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biological experiments they use the crew

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members themselves as

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test subjects and so they will do

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different types of exercise or they will

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look at

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different displays on a laptop computer

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and have to respond to it

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they will record their daily intake of

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whatever foods they ate

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and keep journals of their moods and

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things that they feel and how they are

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and so they do all that and there's

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other biological experiments that

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involve things like fish and and mice

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spiders and butterflies right now

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they're working today kevin ford was

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working with the madoka fish experiment

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which is these tiny little fish and

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there's a

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small aquarium on board the space

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station

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and these little fish have uh of course

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skeletal systems because we all know if

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the fish have skeletons just like humans

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do they're just a lot smaller and so but

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because fish have faster metabolisms and

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don't live as long

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their the effects of microgravity on

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their bones are happens a lot faster

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than it does for us and so the

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researchers are looking at those fish

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bones to find out what longer duration

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space flight for humans how that might

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affect our skeleton systems because

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that's one of the things we've noticed

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is that when you live on board the space

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station for five six months

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you tend to lose bone mass now we're

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learning that certain types of exercise

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can really help us keep that from

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happening and we're actually getting

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really close to the point where we have

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zero loss of bone density on the space

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station but you can imagine

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a lot of people have a thing called

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osteoporosis when you get older i don't

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know if your grandparents may have any

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of this yet

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but but it means your skeleton is a

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little bit weaker and you tend to have

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broken bones or a lot of people have

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broken hips and things like that as they

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get older and

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we're working on learning how that

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affects astronauts because it happens at

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a lot faster rate we're hoping we can

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translate that to things that you can

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help people on the ground

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now there are plant experiments

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we were looking at the difference in the

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way plants grow

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on the ground and in space

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there are experiments as to how fire

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works

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and you know fire on a space station

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since it's an enclosed environment is a

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very dangerous thing and that's part of

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the thing you train them for is how to

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put out fires and how to react quickly

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but it also can help us make uh

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engines run more efficiently whether

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it's car engines or jet engines here on

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earth

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there's

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experiments into uh how to recycle

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things uh i don't know if you know this

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but the water that the crew members on

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the space station drink

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used to be their urine so they went to

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the bathroom and then that went through

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a special filtration system

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that does essentially what the earth

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itself does in about five thousand years

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but it takes about a week or two to

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recycle uh yesterday's coffee into

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tomorrow's coffee as one of our

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astronauts used to say and so we test

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things like that

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there are also important things

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looking at things like bacteria

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researchers have found out that there is

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a specific gene in some bacteria that

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turns on and off

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its ability to make you sick

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and so if we can apply that this

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particular one with salmonella which

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causes food poisoning if we can apply

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those lessons to treatments here on the

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ground we could

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virtually wipe out people getting food

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poisoning on earth

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and that would be a really help because

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a lot of people die or get very very

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sick every year

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around the world from that kind of a

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problem so very different lines of

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research ellen i should not

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i need to also look at astronomy because

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we have the alpha magnetic spectrometer

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that is collecting strange particles

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as the space station orbits the earth it

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takes advantage of the big solar rays

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and electricity to do that

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and we're expecting that to actually

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rewrite the astronomy textbooks here

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soon if you like to study the stars

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because it's going to teach us all about

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i don't want i don't want to take too

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much more time do you have time for

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another question or two or is this it

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we've got time for one more question

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we'll give you one last more question

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hi i'm jenna was working for nasa dream

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well you know it's very interesting that

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you asked that question because when i

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was a little girl i thought i would

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never be able to work at nasa because to

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me i thought it was unreachable

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but you know i was encouraged by my

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teachers especially and and by my

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parents that you know never say that

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anything is impossible as long as you

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try to do your best and i took a

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different avenue i didn't major

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in astronomy or anything like that but i

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did apply the knowledge that i did

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receive in school to what i do now and

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it and it's perfect and so i would just

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encourage you that don't limit yourself

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don't ever think that you know i'm not

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really into science or my strong point

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might be something else and so therefore

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i i would wouldn't make it in any

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particular field because you have so

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many talents inside of you that are just

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waiting to come out so for me

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i i thought i could never do it and here

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i am and i would never dream of being

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anywhere else i absolutely love being

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here to mona lisa you have to tell them

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what you studied okay

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so my my degree is actually in

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criminology so that just goes to show

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you here it is i thought i would be you

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know fbi cia and instead here i'm

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working with these great uh crew members

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and flight controllers and flight

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directors so you never know where your

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education will lead you that's right and

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you know i took a different path too

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i've been working at nasa for 26 years

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now

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i remember getting to stay home from

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kindergarten to watch alan shepard

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launch when the very first american went

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into space

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and i've always had a real interest in

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space but i never thought you know i

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want to be an astronaut and all that but

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i was too tall at the time and then i

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got needed to wear glasses of course

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wear contacts now and things like that

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so i never thought i could do it

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and i was a reporter and an editor for

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10 years before

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i got an opportunity to come work at

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nasa and now i've been here for 26 years

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and it's been a really rewarding career

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so my point is that a

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just study what you need your you get a

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good general education and that will set

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you up for just about anything you want

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to do in life and if it ends up being

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working at nasa remember that not

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everybody has to be an astronaut that

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there are all kinds of people that

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support in many different ways there are

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business people that keep the budgets

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running for us so that we can do the

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things we do there are flight

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controllers that support the crews here

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on the ground or people like alicia that

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help coordinate the training that's so

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important to them doing their jobs well

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for people like me that help share it

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with people like you and people like

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mike o'hare who's helping us do this

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telecon today uh who are useful and

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they're human resources people that make

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sure that we have all the right people

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to do the jobs that need to be done

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so just remember that you should follow

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what what you like to do because

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life is too short to be doing something

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just for the paycheck you should be

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doing something you enjoy doing and if

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that ends up being a nasa we would

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alicia thank you so very very much for

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giving us this time

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uh to spend with you we we know how

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vibrant your time is and i can't begin

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to tell you what a thrill it has been

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for us here at christ king school in our

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little town of robin vermont to to be

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able to have this opportunity to speak

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with people in mission control it really

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is uh

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very inspiring to all of us thank you

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very much ken everybody can be given all

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big uh thank you

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thank you thank you i've really enjoyed

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the time we've spent together today

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thanks a bunch to you guys and to also

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everybody on the digital learning

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network that helps make these

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connections possible we love doing it