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good afternoon welcome to the expedition

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3536 crew news conference i'm joined

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today by nasa astronaut chris cassidy

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and from the russian federal space

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agency cosmonauts pavel vinogradov and

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alexander misurkin the trio is set to

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launch to the international space

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station aboard a soyuz spacecraft on

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march 27th of this year with that i'll

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turn it over to the internet to the crew

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for their opening comments and remarks

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and then we'll follow up with questions

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and answers from the media chris

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thanks jay and it thanks everybody for

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being here today and for tuning in

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on nasa tv it's really exciting for us

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as a crew to be here because it means

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that we're really close to flight and

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it's we're honing in on the end of a two

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and a half two two and a half year

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process which is culminating with some

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uh intense training here in houston and

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will soon be in star city where we'll

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have our final exams and want to prepare

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for our launch coming up on march 28th

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in kazakhstan the 27th here

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it's looking to be shaping up to be a

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really exciting expedition we've got a

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lot going on the most exciting thing for

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us uh well there's several exciting

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things one of them is we have the

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potential to see

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every possible visiting vehicle that can

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come to the space station

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uh the possibility exists for us to see

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those vehicles and and participate in

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missions so that's very exciting

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couple that with um

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seven possible spacewalks for the for

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russian side three on potential evas on

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this on the american side as we sort out

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that plan later this month and into

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we're very excited to join

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our friends and colleagues roman

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romanenko chris hadfield and tom

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marshburn on the space station

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i like to joke around that i never go to

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space without tom marshburn because he

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and i flew together on sts-127

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and on the other side when they leave

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we'll uh we'll be joined by luca

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parmitano karen nyberg and fyodor your

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chicken all of whom uh we've

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become great friends with as we work

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through this training process to get

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ready for flight so we're really excited

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for the whole process and can't wait to

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start and with that i'll turn it over to

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our very experienced commander paul

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i would like to support the opinion that

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we're approaching the finishing line we

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only have a few weeks left of training

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including the training in moscow and

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we have an excellent team both the team

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that is expecting us on board

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and the crew that will be arriving when

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we are on board of the iss our flight

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will be very interesting it will be very

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busy we will have a lot of vehicle

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flights as well as evas so i expect a

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what i can add to all this word which my

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i'm just really excited and looking

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forward to this flight and thank you

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very much for your interest in our

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flight too

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okay we'll now open the floor for

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questions from the assembled media and

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then also along the phone bridge please

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the media please state your name and

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affiliation when you're asking a

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thanks uh mark caro for aviation week

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i'll just throw this out for for any of

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you if if your flight turns out to be

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the poor orbit

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demonstration of the soyuz

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good thing or a bad thing or it's an

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adventure to kind of see what what it's

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we are decreasing the time that it takes

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reach the full orbit and so i am

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well actually we're going to follow up

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the program scientists mentioned that

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pressure measurements that have to do

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with vision problems and maybe this is

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one of those kind of experiments that

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deep space exploration and even help in

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diagnosing a range of medical ills

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ocular health and long-term health uh

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both on iss and obvious impact to future

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potentially there's a lot of spacewalk

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work pace it sounds like it could be

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about as much as we can take and we'll

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prioritization of all these activities

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afternoon's press briefing for more

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questions about nasa nasa programs the