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station this is houston are you ready

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houston station we are ready

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wfmy tv this is mission control houston

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please call station for a voice check

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station this is wfmy tv can you hear us

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got you loud and clear help me

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but tom i gotta tell you how excited i

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am to do this because you were living

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out what most little boys think about i

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know for me growing up in north carolina

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being an astronaut was a pretty cool

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thing so uh you know for all the kids

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and the and the boys out there the

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office and the women too want to be

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astronauts that's a very good thing what

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hey thanks very much yeah i was a little

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kid dreaming that as well and uh it can

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happen it's i still can't believe i'm up

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here most of the time it's a real

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privilege a real honor but it's a lot of

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fun it's definitely work

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worth the trip getting here

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now is this your first time or tom how

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this is my second flight into space in

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2009 i came to visit the space station

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did some construction work on the space

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and we came up here and added some parts

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and did three space walks so it's been

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three years but once we came back on

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hadn't left the place almost it almost

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you have to describe for me and i've

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always tried to visualize what this

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would be like and you mentioned

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spacewalk that was going to be one of my

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when you do the space walk and i know

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obviously no gravity no atmosphere but

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you do you get the sensation that you're

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moving as fast as you are when you're

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sense of movement however the earth is

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going by very quickly it's a beautiful

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panorama that's going by us we'll go

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around the world in 90 minutes i can get

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north america in just about 15 minutes

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you have to be very quick to get a good

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but i think you're right i think

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when you're in the spacesuit with the

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wonderful view you have through your

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sometimes if you're not prepared for it

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and suddenly look down at the earth

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and also it makes me think of uh you

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time and scheduling do you guys just

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it's time to work and time to go to

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well our lives are very carefully uh

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the mission controls both in moscow and

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right right now uh we have to sleep

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computers and we consult that very often

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is there much of a difference now i know

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russian spacecraft the last time was

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that a russian vehicle or was it united

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flight and this time is on the soyuz and

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wonder and since you're you know an old

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pro at this and now we hear a lot of

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talk about privatization of rides into

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first leap taking a lot of the business

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health risks as well coming up on the

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new vehicles but uh it's very exciting

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exciting to to be a part of it we hope

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a space faring nation and we're very

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carolina and i was wondering did they

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internet protocol phone up here allows

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that very excited about seeing what the

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curiosity which is more unnerving the

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very much looking forward to that

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better you than me tom although i wish i

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could do it thank you so much for taking

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thank you great talking to you

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as stationed this is houston acr that

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concludes the wfmy portion of the event

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please stand by for a voice check from

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and station this houston acr stand by

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just one second for wcnc

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another man going through

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this is the space station i read

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somebody loud and clear how do you read

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good to hear your voice

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are we rolling are we ready to go here

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cruising at about 14 000 miles an hour

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about 240 miles above us dr tom

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hey thanks very much i appreciate it

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you are cruising about the 14 000 miles

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above 14 000 miles an hour hey what

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would you like to say to your friends

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and family down here in this area this

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always just uh

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have all of you here in my heart with me

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up here in space it's a beautiful place

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a wonderful thing i wish i could see you

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it's been a little bit cloudy here

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recently when i've had a chance to look

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next five months i'll have a chance to

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hello

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you've been up there for a couple weeks

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now blasted off with a with a russian

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and a canadian how what was that

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oh it's wonderful you know i launched on

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the shuttle the space shuttle uh on a

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mission three years ago and uh the

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launch you know when you're sitting on a

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whole big pile of propellant and it

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explodes under you it feels about the

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same no matter what vehicle you're in uh

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the staging was quite a bit different

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though in the soyuz when you go from

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your third stage to your second stage a

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lot more kicks

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uh as the stage is light uh to keep

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pushing you up uh through the atmosphere

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and into space but the soyuz is a good

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bit smaller than the shuttle it's like a

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little sports car so it was really very

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exciting to be in that spacecraft and

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the way it maneuvers is completely

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different so we had a good time

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amazing experience uh you know when we

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down here on earth think about the where

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you are the international space station

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i've heard it described as like a

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three-bedroom house how would you

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well in terms of the size it's grown to

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about a five-bedroom house but what you

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see right now is it looks like a

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laboratory and that's exactly what it's

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like uh we live and we we live where we

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work we live inside of a laboratory and

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so there's a whole bunch of modules the

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whole russian segment behind us

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so it's it's very roomy i don't feel too

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confined at all there is

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some beautiful windows that we can look

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out of when we have a few minutes of

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time so we can look at the earth going

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by below us so that's very nice one of

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the the biggest differences though from

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a regular home is as you can see

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we're doing experiments on the ceiling

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on the walls and on the floor it's all

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around us as a matter of fact right here

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i've got my uh

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i've got my dinner right here in an

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envelope let's see i'm going to have a

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grilled pork chop tonight

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so

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everything you have at home that you

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live with is right here in the

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laboratory with us

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that has to be i mean meals ready to eat

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i guess you that's how you describe that

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so everything is

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sealed and ready for consumption do you

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there's a little oven about the size of

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a suitcase we just warm it up and then

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right behind me again on the ceiling is

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a little refrigerator and the water

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fountain so we can rehydrate things if

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we need to

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but the food's really good i've i've had

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meals ready to eat before and those are

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pretty good but the food up here is

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excellent

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no you know when we think think about

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your time up there you were a physician

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and what are some of your

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responsibilities there i know there's a

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lot of research that's being done

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well that's right yeah about 130

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experiments going on right now and we've

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we're all signed up for doing all the

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experiments i did

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i was looking forward to very much

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through the life sciences life sciences

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experiments i'm

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involved in quite a number of those

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you always have two crew medical

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officers on board and since i'm a

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physician naturally i became one of the

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medical officers but one of my crewmates

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is also one because you know the doctor

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could get sick too so we always have two

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on board

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everyone that i talked to when i

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mentioned i was going to be speaking to

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you they said

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this one of the questions is well you

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know when you're up there uh where does

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the water supply come from is it

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recycled and

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how is it actually using the restroom at

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that's a great question it's actually

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i think it's a very exciting aspect of

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this space station and the technology on

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board of it right now we're at zero

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water balance that is um we are re

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creating all the water that we drink and

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part of that's reusing what we put out

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so yesterday's coffee becomes tomorrow's

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coffee sometimes but

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the system works wonderfully we spend a

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little bit of time and water processing

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up here just to manage under the

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direction of mission control manage the

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water balance up here

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and in terms of the using the the

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bathroom well it's uh you got four walls

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you don't have an open window where we

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are so other than the zero gravity

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aspect of it which is actually pretty

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significant um

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and your body getting used to that

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one of our final questions is what yeah

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i mean if you were to describe uh the

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biggest challenge that you have

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on the international space station for

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the for the next six months what would

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well i think it's going to be uh

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completing the work program it's it's

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aggressive um

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but it's it's exciting where

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we really want to get it all done

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and you know the hardware needs to

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cooperate with us and so we're going to

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be using everything we've ever learned

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as well as once you come up here you

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realize this is a different world that

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cannot be recreated on earth at all

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it's why we're using it as a laboratory

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but also gives us lots of challenges to

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get things done because things float

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away we lose them we we lose our our

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footing you have to learn how to stand

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walk eat and just function in space so

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fulfilling that to uh to a full degree

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that's going to be the biggest challenge

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dr tom marshwood thank you so much for

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taking the time to speak to us and and

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we being here in the charlotte area the

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states here we're really proud of of

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what you have done and the whole crew

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and look forward to seeing you back on

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it's great to hear your voice say hello

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the event thank you

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and thank you

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