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okay station this is houston are you

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guys ready for the event station houston

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are you guys ready for the event

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stations ready for the event

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putnam museum of history and natural

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science this is mission control houston

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please call station for a voice check

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this is kim finley here with students at

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hey kim and putnam we hear you loud and

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clear aboard the international space

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we're excited

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hope has a question for you

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well that's a

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great question was i scared to go into

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space you know astronauts we don't

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really like to use the word scared but

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of course on the day of launch and the

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day of landing and everything there's a

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lot of dynamics going on so we're

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concerned i think we're just a little

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bit scared and we really pay attention

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to what's going on but we think it's

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really important that what that

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that we get up here to space and of

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course that we come home safely and

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everything so in those big days we're

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attention and a little bit scared just

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like everybody gets a little bit scared

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sometimes but it's all for a good cause

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now tabitha has a question

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what made you to live and work on the i

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mean yeah i'm right ss and are you happy

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hi tabitha i'm very happy to be an

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astronaut being an astronaut it's a lot

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of fun because you get to do lots of fun

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things you get to float around in space

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such great people i spent a lot of years

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training even just for this mission up

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here on the space station and so during

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that time you get to fly jets you get to

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practice space walks in a big deep

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but mostly you get to work with great

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people who are very smart and who love

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what they what they do and there's

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thank you we have a question from

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are there any mental challenges to being

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so isolated and do you ever feel

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we we are isolated we only get to see

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each other for months at a time and we

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every day uh we do feel close to the

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people we're working with in mission

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control and everything so you know we

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have good communication with earth but

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of course we know we can't come home

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instantly anytime we want to so we're in

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a special place and you kind of have to

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to fly in a tiny capsule sometimes when

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bit tight and that sort of thing but you

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through those things if you if you work

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and next a question from hate zeus

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what happens if someone gets hurt or

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someone if they get sick or hurt so what

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something really goes bad so we could

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space flight this is fun up here too but

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launching on a rocket is a very special

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soyuz rocket and in both cases you kind

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of strap in you're lying on your back

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ahead of time you're in a space suit and

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that you have to do but there's always a

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countdown clock too and finally when the

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moment arrives when you launch a lot of

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vibration and there's no doubt about it

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that something special is happening with

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that rocket and you uh you feel a lot of

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shaking you can kind of sense the noise

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through the air fast for a while and the

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rocket just pushes and pushes on you so

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it's really like pushing accelerating in

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minutes of that pushing and then we're

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experience and there's some booms and

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a little bit more exciting as pieces of

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the rocket come off so it's it's about

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now a question from joey

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do you get to just relax and float

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gonna demonstrate here floating around

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how long can someone stay on the space

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miss earth also when we're up here we

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isolation and stuff so i think a year is

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became an astronaut a couple years more

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of training and then two more years of

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training just for this flight but you

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lines of uh contrails from aircraft

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night sky and they don't twinkle for us

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perspective that so few people get

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and really changes

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the way you look at the world and the

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way you look at your fellow

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mankind around you

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thank you now we have a question from

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anna

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how do you communicate with

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that goes through the computer system so

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we can actually make calls to our family

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and friends if we want to

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we have email systems too so that we can

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write letters to them

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and then they get down to them back and

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forth

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sometimes uh nasa takes good care of us

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sending up maybe some videos or some

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photos that our family and friends send

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up specially for us to kind of entertain

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us during our long stays on board so

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that's that's really fun and then once a

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week we get kind of a special treat

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where uh they they set us up with a

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video conference and we go to a computer

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and it has a camera built into it and we

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can see our family or friends on the

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monitor and have maybe a half an hour or

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45 minute conversation with our family

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and friends on earth we get to see them

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and they get to see us almost with no

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delay so it's really nice a way to

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here's a question from aaron

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well aaron it's exercise is very very

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important up here you might know that if

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we didn't exercise our bones and our

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muscles would waste away because right

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now we're not even exercising even

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though it may look like we're sort of

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standing here our muscles are almost

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completely relaxed so we have a

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treadmill and we have bungees that hold

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us down to the treadmill so it we can

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almost

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act like we're walking and our leg

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muscles feel like they're walking and we

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can also

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ride on a bicycle it gives us some

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resistance so it's at times it feels

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like we're just coasting along the road

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sometimes it feels like we're riding up

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a very steep hill and that's a good

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workout

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and then i think my favorite machine is

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the resistance exercise machine and

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that's like lifting weights

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and it helps keep our muscles strong and

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you can do everything from squats to

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bench press that sort of thing so i

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think they've got that all figured out

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really well we've got a lot of great

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thank you now we have a question from

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what is the hardest thing about being in

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well you know i think we work pretty

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hard up here we we stay very busy

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because there's just a few of us up here

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and there are a lot of scientists on the

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planet who have a lot of great ideas for

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things you can do in microgravity things

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you can do with the space station

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looking towards space

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and looking towards earth so it's a very

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very valuable place to be and we're very

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busy hundreds of experiments going on uh

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on the space station uh kind of at a

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time we're not involved with all those

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every day but we're still helping with

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many of them every day so we stay very

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busy

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also it's kind of a confusing place to

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live because we have things on the

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floors like refrigerators and we have

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science racks on our ceiling and every

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wall kind of looks the same and every

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wall is very busy and it's very easy to

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get confused about which way things

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are should be oriented and lose track of

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things if you uh if you let go of

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something it will sneak away from you

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because the ventilation will carry it

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away very quietly so it's kind of easy

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to lose things up here everything has to

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be tied down with velcro or put on a

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hook or something so that that makes

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life a little bit difficult just things

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like eating your food and sleeping in

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zero gravity are a little bit different

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so i think that's probably the most

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here's a question from danny

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does it snow in space and it does not

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snow in space and the reason why is

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because there's no atmosphere up here

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if you had

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a little bit of moisture out in the

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vacuum of space it would very quickly

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turn to ice and then what we say as we

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say sublimate away and turn into a gas

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very quickly so uh nope we're above the

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weather we're about 250 miles up so

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we're way above the atmosphere where all

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question from alexis

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what are some jobs or tasks that you do

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i'm sorry what could you could you just

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repeat that one more time for us

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we are wondering what are some of the

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jobs that you do aboard the space

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oh that that's really a great question

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we have many different kinds of jobs so

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one of them is we just have to take care

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of the space station

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we have many many systems that we have

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to provide

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services like we have a space toilet

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that we take care of very very carefully

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and communication systems that we take

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care of

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and

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cooling systems so many many things need

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to be worked on every day so we spend

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some of our time just working on the

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space station systems to make sure

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everything stays in order and then the

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other jobs are doing the science

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for the scientists on the ground and the

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engineers who have designed our

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experiments for us they've made it as

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easy as they can for us so that we can

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just go up to a rack that has a science

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experiment experiment in it perhaps and

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just turn it on and maybe just get

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things

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tuned up for them and then they can

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watch it on the ground with cameras we

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might put new samples in or something

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like that each day so that we can get

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the science the science done so we are

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just the the eyes ears and hands if you

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will of the many many scientists on the

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ground who

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wish they could come up here to do the

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research but because it's so expensive

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to get here and back just a few people

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get to come so we're we're just here to

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all right we have another question for

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i was wondering what is the most

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well this trip right now really tops

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them all i'd say

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and as kevin said launches are very

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exciting so the launching on the space

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shuttle and launching on the soyuz is

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probably the most interesting and

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exciting thing

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certainly in my professional career

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i've been a doctor i've been several

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other things in my life but that tops

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them all i'd say

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but

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as i mentioned before also

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working the people that i get to work

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with at nasa who are all very curious

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smart folks

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and all of us working together to get a

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job done

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gentlemen we can't thank you enough for

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the time you spent with us today boys

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and girls can we give them a huge round

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of applause say thank you to the

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thank you so much for having us the

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questions were wonderful it's great to

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hear your voices and i'm just exciting

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to see the future leaders of tomorrow

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you will be going into space or sending

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someone into space in the future i hope

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station this is houston acr thank you

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thank you putnam museum of history and

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natural science and students stationed