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so the space station ready for the event

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eastern kentucky university this is

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mission control houston please call

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this is the international space station

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station this is at eastern kentucky

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read you loud and clear how do you read

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yes we hear you

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stationed this is jonathan at eastern

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read you loud and clear how do you read

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good afternoon

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welcome to eku we have the first

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what is it like to work with astronauts

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and cosmonauts from other countries on

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research and development of projects on

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i would say that is the best part of

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space flight or the people we get to

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work with

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we've uh in training we travel all

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around the world japan canada uh over to

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germany other places in europe russia

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and it is absolutely wonderful it really

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draws everyone together it's a true

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i know that astronauts have to go

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through so much training before going

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into space so was there anything that

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happened that you weren't prepared for

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and i think you said is there anything

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anything special about our our training

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the uh training to fly into space you're

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right it took two and a half years of

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training to get here to the space

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station besides riding on a rocket

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learning how to do that learning how to

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do the science we had to learn how to

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speak russian and all of that has been

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useful up here but i'll tell you once

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you're here you're in an isolated place

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and you have to use your wits quite a

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bit there's a fair amount of things we

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have to do here that we can never

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anticipate that no one can anticipate

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in training and so we have to just go by

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our wits i'd say you know 30 sometimes

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how do the astronauts communicate with

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each other aboard the international

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just talking to each other like you and

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corner a little bit farther away there's

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fan noise here so it's a little bit hard

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to hear each other so we have an

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intercom system we can talk to each

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other on as well but it's always nice to

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float over to one side of the

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station or the other and talk to our

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can 55 put robotic arm on the iss with

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and i'm sorry i didn't understand the

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came the 55 foot long robotic arm on the

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iss with more light and space than on

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do things look different uh from space

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the earth is actually uh quite a amazing

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place to look at the brilliant blue of

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the ocean usually we look down and we

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see the ocean usually uh we see clouds

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over the earth and see uh

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we're always looking for cities looking

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looking for volcanoes that sort of thing

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were always in microgravity whether you

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were on earth or not would you choose

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about that a lot and you know what i

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gravity hard as it is to believe because

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it is a delightful is a lot of fun to

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you to be able to fly from module to

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module but there's something about us

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that likes to just be able to set

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something down and have it stay there

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like a coffee in a in a cup would be

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nice to put on a table but for right now

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i'm enjoying microgravity as much as i

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do that however uh if i'm the one that

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other person trained to be a crew

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medical officer and we don't always have

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ultrasound machine so we could do some

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diagnostic imaging take a look inside

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science is that you never really know we

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it's impossible to say how that's going

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to help us in the future we might be

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able to cure osteoporosis we might be

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direct impact is going to be the way we

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medical care to astronauts it allows you

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to bring medical care to people all

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around the world that normally don't

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hospitals and that's at the top of my

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fish experiment that is growing on the

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space station and is it providing any

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helpful helpful information for the

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basic science experiments that were

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breakthroughs you know they're looking

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break down bone and that build it back

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study this on the cellular cellular

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level rather than just measuring bone

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density in humans who knows what we'll

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lightning patterns for instance there's

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remember seeing any differences that i

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findings from the space station that

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just to be a space faring nation like i

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problems to get people in space

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the technology is required to do this

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makes everybody better makes the

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industrial base better because the

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precision has to be so much higher

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knew a thousand people in my life that

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wanted to be an astronaut and wanted to

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work for nasa that went into some of the

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stem fields such as you might be going

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of them did not however they went on to

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love with so i believe that that

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discoveries and i would say every single

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time we do something something

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studying right now but if you're really

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faced with something new on the space

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early and certainly the most useful one

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after the next question

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space than ever before

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the first humans to travel that far into

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space with all the health problems

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dangerous we understand the limits of

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what a human can handle and we're

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now to be able to have some protection

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for humans out there so the answer is

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yes i would be willing to and i think a

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lot of people would what we can discover

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the experience of flying in space far

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outweigh for me personally the risk

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that's a decision every astronaut would

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have to make but yes i would love to fly

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thank you dr marshburn and good luck

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thank you so much it's great to talk to

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you hello to everyone down there it's an

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incredible gathering you've got there

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and you know i feel like i'm talking to

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the future flight controllers and flight

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directors and astronauts and engineers

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that's going to make life better for all

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of us so thank you very much for having

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