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station this is houston are you ready

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i'm ready for the event

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mr shatner this is mission control

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houston

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please call station for a voice check

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i'm uh i'm calling this is shatner do

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mr shatner this is uh

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the space research vessel iss in earth

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orbit and yes i hear you loud and clear

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how do you hear me this is chris

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hadfield chris i hear you loud and clear

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it's such a pleasure to talk to you

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i i'm so moved to uh be able to speak to

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you for i'm so moved to be able to speak

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to you for this brief moment so i want

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to i want to ask you some questions that

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uh uh have deep

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have some deep meaning to me so let me

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start off right away um

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you you're in the international space

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station but you had to get there in a

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russian vehicle are we as america

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fallen behind or is this just a pause on

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the space business is an extremely

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difficult one and if i think the best

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way to answer that question

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is to look at history

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you know we've never had

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regular access to space we've had a

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space flight and then a landing and then

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we review everything and make sure it's

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safe and then we launch another one and

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the shuttle was tremendously vehicle a

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successful vehicle flying 135 times but

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it's not like in between flights we

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could just count on the next one every

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one was really much

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the the max level of effort that we

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could do and so it went from mercury to

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gemini to apollo to shuttle with many

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many lulls in between and the time it

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takes to build a new vehicle is quite

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it you could say we kind of lost our way

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in between every single launch but in

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truth that's not how it works what it

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takes is an enormous effort of will and

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technical know-how to build a spaceship

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and then

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to be brave enough to launch one because

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you risk lives every time you do

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and we're just right now in between

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vehicles much as we were

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after mercury after gemini after apollo

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we're just in the after shuttle era

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right now but fortunately

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because of international cooperation

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we're not grounded

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and this place is built by the world and

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very much put together with the united

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states as the

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as the foreman

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and uh and fortunately we didn't have to

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abandon it as we did skylab because we

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didn't have a vehicle or cooperation

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because of cooperation with other

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countries people are here living and

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working and the united states will build

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another vehicle and that will come up

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here also so it's by no means a lost way

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it's just a natural path i read that you

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have already volunteered to go on a mars

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mission uh is that have any reality to

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and and because of the uh uh the nature

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of this brief time let me add to that

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uh you volunteered to go but isn't that

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a fearful uh

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operation isn't that fraught with such

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you've taken a lot of risks in your life

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it was a risk that that i decided to

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take many many years ago really to

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accomplish anything worthwhile in life

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is going to take risk

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and even if you decide to stay at home

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and and sit at your kitchen table

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eventually

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uh the ceiling will fall or there'll be

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a hurricane or a tornado you can't live

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a worthwhile life without taking risks

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and some things are really worth

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directing your life towards and putting

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your life on the line for

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let me just say uh between the real life

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exploits of the first astronauts and the

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the visually fantasized and enlivened

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ones like you portrayed on star trek and

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so many other people have in in

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literature

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they inspire people like me to do things

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like this

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and without that inspiration

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um and then without the technological

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capability that comes along with it none

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of it would be possible

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and i i'm in a position to say that

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the risks are infinitely worthwhile when

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you look at the view that's just out

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these windows behind me and the things

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that lie just beyond and yes going to

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mars is inevitable uh just as

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sailing across the atlantic or flying

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across the atlantic or orbiting around

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the world or going to the moon it's just

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a matter of when we figure out how we

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put ourselves together enough we take

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and turn them into reality which is what

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we're doing here right now you are uh

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you have many degrees in mechanical

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engineering and you must see the

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universe in terms of

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how extraordinary a mechanical

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engineering feat

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is and how mystifying it is because we

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know nothing

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uh in the space station observing as a

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scientist a part of it uh a a a a

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removed from it or are you

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able to be to see the unifying parts of

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it so that you become at one with the

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luckily i think bill the answer is both

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most people the highest they ever get is

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maybe to climb a tall hill or climb a

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mountain and look around or even get in

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an airplane and and start

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to see

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what lies beyond the normal two

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dimensions the surface of the world of

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normal life

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to have the opportunity

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to get as far away as we are here and

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not only that but to go around the world

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every 90 minutes and

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you never saw it on stage while you were

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filming um but the view that they used

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to put in for us watching star trek of

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how the world looks out of

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sulu and chekhov's windows there that's

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how the world looks it's an enormous

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wonderful rolling earth below us but all

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you have to do is flip yourself upside

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suddenly the rest of the universe

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is right there um at your feet below you

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and that's where

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the the engineer in me of course is is

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very much thinking about the ship and

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and how we got here and the problems and

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the difficulties

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but the human within me recognizes what

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we are in between we've gone from

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climbing a hill getting in an airplane

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to now actually

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being right on the cusp of permanently

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leaving our planet to everything else

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that exists

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uh hugely connected to that it's what it

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was inspired in me as a kid and i've

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kind of directed my whole life i became

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an engineer and a fighter pilot and a

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test pilot to try and gain the skills to

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maybe someday do this

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and now i'm doing my absolute best to

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help people see that to help us

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understand where we are

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kind of philosophically and historically

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in our increased human understanding of

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where we do lie in the universe those

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are great big words for for you know a

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lab technician on a space station

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i definitely get a sense of that all the

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it's inspiring to hear let me go back to

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a moment uh you've tested many airplanes

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you've you've uh been a test pilot which

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is like the utmost of uh uh

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example of courage in that you're flying

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something uh unknown and you don't know

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what characteristics is going to have

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how do you deal with the fear which is

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and returning which is perhaps even more

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um i read somewhere that uh

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you always knew your lines

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whenever you had a job in the acting

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profession i have tried to always know

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my lines whether it was as as a fighter

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and and the way i the way i deal with

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is i try to define what it is that's

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scaring me and what i'm scared most of

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is not knowing what to do next you know

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to be struck dumb on stage or to to be

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uh responsible for a vehicle and not

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know the right actions to take with my

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hands or with the spaceship and so

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i spent almost my entire adult life

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making sure that that i knew my lines

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that that when the soyuz spaceship which

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i helped fly up here that ev i spent

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years of course learning to speak

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russian and then learning to fly that

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spaceship and even though it flew itself

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basically flawlessly up here no matter

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what happened roman romanenko and i were

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ready to jump in and fly it and take

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over and do it all manually and fly at

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home and that that's a terrifying thing

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where you you practice everything right

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down to the nth details so you know you

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have the confidence that comes with that

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then the fear diminishes it feels

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like you're on the crest of a wave of

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ability and that really diminishes fear

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you've poised that perfectly as a an

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who is fearful of the audience but as

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long as you practice enough

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you learn what to expect

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the fear comes from

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uh something unexpected happening like

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forgetting your words or an audience

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that's unexpected

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in my case uh your face flushes and you

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flames

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but one's figurative and one is not

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my wife my wife bill

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my wife is actually when people ask her

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if she's scared of what i do for a

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as you say prior to this i was i was a

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test pilot that was a much more risky

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profession i basically lost one good

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friend a year for the whole time that i

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was a professional high performance

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pilot and um so

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this job has has risk and a level that

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is fairly high but uh there are lots of

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professions on earth that have a lot of

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risk the people firemen and soldiers and

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and some of the professions on earth and

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i respect them all for them

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understanding their job

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really applying themselves and

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professionally getting their particular

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uh piece of work done in the world well

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there's another risk involved here as

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well you're up there for six months

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think of what you and i are doing right

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now you know you think about

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about uh the stuff that was portrayed on

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television 40 years ago

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of uh people with a small handheld

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device standing on the surface of a

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planet talking to someone effortlessly

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who's orbiting that planet that's what

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you and i are doing right now and so i

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can do the same with my friends and

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family i can talk to them pretty much

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every day and

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so it's not that much different than

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just being on a long business trip and

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and training as an international space

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station astronaut takes you all around

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the world for years so

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in truth it's it's a four or five year

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period of which five or six months

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you're in orbit but uh with the level of

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technology we have right now it removes

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a lot of the of the sense of remoteness

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to it so it's so it's uh we're busy

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happy hard-working and we still that's

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that's wonderful to hear chris i'm

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getting a little nudging uh that we're

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running over time so many questions

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about the future of space and and and

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the mars mission and all i would look

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forward to another time to speak to you

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in

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larger implications of the questions

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that i was uh i've briefly been able to

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you know those scenes when you were in

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boston legal where at the end of the

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show and you sit out sort of on the

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veranda or the balcony and maybe over a

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a cigar and a whiskey and talk of life

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i i you ought to come to my cottage and

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sit on a porch i would love the chance

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to talk with you about this and

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is a fabulous experience northern

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ontario is one of my favorite places

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yeah we have an ontario cottage and yeah

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you ought to come visit it's a great

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place to think about the world and watch

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satellites go over and uh and really

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reflect on where we are

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i know we were short on time i know the

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area

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it's a pleasure chris i look forward to

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meeting you in person and sitting down

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all right very nice talking with you

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thanks very much and uh all the best

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes your conversation with mr

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shatner please stand by for a voice

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greetings chris it's jeremy here with

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you at the at our home the kane space

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jeremy i have you loud i think that yeah

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great to hear your voice and hello to

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everybody and hello to everybody and

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we've got you loud and clear too chris

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we've got a number of questions here for

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you we're going to get started with that

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chris but before we do that i just

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wanted to pass along some words on

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behalf of the agency we're we're so

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incredibly proud of what you've been

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doing on behalf of canada up there and

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we're following you along every step of

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the way so keep up the great work and we

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really enjoyed listening to you this

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uh

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foreign

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hi chris this is ryan caverley uh my

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question is considering the recent

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success of the spacex dragon spacecraft

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do you think that the private sector

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will play a greater role in the

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well that the private sector has always

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played the biggest role in canadian

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com dev and uh

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spar and mdr mda and uh

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neptek and all those companies uh

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they've always been private sector

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companies the real question is who's the

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customer and uh to be able to of course

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sell at the canadian space agency and

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through the government which is the big

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uh purchaser in the united states too

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where we're headed we're sort of like in

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the railroad days building the

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trans-canada railway or building the

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airports building the infrastructure so

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that then businesses can open we're

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still in that stage the biggest customer

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is still the government but where spacex

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is headed where we're all headed that's

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where we ought to be going and

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eventually of course it will pay off for

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canadian private sector even more so but

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it's a long process it's not easy to get

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okay thank you chris

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hi chris i'm rob from toronto um

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you've been doing a great job connecting

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with a lot of people worldwide through

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social media and other means like this

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event today what's the number one

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message that you really want people to

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you know people always ask what's it

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like in space and what's your favorite

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thing the favorite thing is looking out

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the window and that's not just because

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it's pretty it's because it's

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fundamental to your soul

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to see the world this way

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to be able to just you know what i was

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waiting for this to start you can't help

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but go to the window and look and think

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about where we are and my fundamental

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goal is to get people as best as i can

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to be able to see the world that way to

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see it as one small place one bubble of

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air that keeps us all alive that we're

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responsible for and just how close we

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are to each other and

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it's a perspective that is healthy for

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us as a species and it's one that we are

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very privileged to see and i'm doing my

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very best to let everybody see that as

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you're doing a great job of it thank you

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hey chris it's uh katrina from the royal

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astronomical society of canada we all

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say hi um astro yyz here anyway um as an

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amateur astronomer i'm interested in

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knowing what astronomical objects can be

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seen from the iss given you have so many

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lights around you lights and machines

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and so when you wear dark you can go on

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station where you can look out and

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really get dark adapted and see what's

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yes sort of like a little kid leaving

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home most of our glances are back

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towards mother earth but we do have

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windows that face the rest of the

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universe and i spent some time looking

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at at some actually yesterday looking

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out one yesterday

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and remarking on actually just your

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question that

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the sky is almost white with with the

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light of the universe with the

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uncountable number of stars but it has a

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lot of variation to it even just with

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the naked eye when we're in the shade of

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the earth so we can really see it

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you can see the whole dark sections

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where there's dark matter or or dust or

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whatever it is that's between us and the

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rest of the universe you can see the

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gradations of it like looking into the

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deepest ocean and you can see very

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bright spots you can't see the

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constellations because the sky is just

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so alive with stars

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it turns everyone into an

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amateur astronomer to uh to be able to

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see the sky this way i i hope you get a

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chance someday to come up and just let

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it fill your head through your eyeballs

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me too thank you

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hi chris my name is jennifer nichols i'm

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an elementary school teacher and the

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question i have for you today is um

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being in a position that so much uh

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attention is focused in you and you what

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you have achieved on your career so far

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what message you would like to give to

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the people down here or the students

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down here that can maybe see their

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dreams but don't have the

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uh you know i read somewhere once an

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interview with sir paul mccartney paul

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mccartney of the beatles and he said

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that

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he feels insecure

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sometimes he feels

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a lack of confidence sometimes and

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he said to himself gosh if i feel that

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way everybody must feel that way and i

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really took something away from that i

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thought if if one of the beatles that uh

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occasionally doesn't feel confident

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doesn't have self-confidence then that's

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universal everybody feels that way

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and it's really uh only with

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each individual step of accomplishment

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that you start to build a sense of

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confidence in your own abilities when i

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decided to be an astronaut i had

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virtually no skills i was nine years old

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but i thought hey i'm only nine i'm not

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supposed to have very many skills yet

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but i'm going to start working on it i

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mean i want to someday

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live on a space station i want to

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command a spaceship what what do i do

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how do i get there and so i just

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every day started thinking about well

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how do i get there what do i have to do

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well i need to do well in middle school

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i need to do well in high school i need

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to understand what's going on i need to

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learn to scuba dive i need to not let my

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body get fat i need to

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decide what i'm going to watch and read

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and just start

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turning myself into who i want to be and

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with each one of those steps learning to

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fly through the air cadets

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each one of those little levels of

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accomplishment i used to race downhill

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on various teams with every small

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success

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comes a little bit of self-confidence in

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the things that you can accomplish so

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that then when you're faced with a

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problem that's new to you you can look

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at it and go gosh i don't know how to do

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that but i'm pretty sure i'm going to be

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able to figure it out

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and and i treat everything the same way

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whether it's learning to operate a

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camera like this one

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which i'm not really all that good at

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but i've learned well enough to be able

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to take some very good looking pictures

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of the world or to fly a spaceship

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or to uh

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i mean tomorrow i'm recording a song

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with uh

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or playing a song with ed robertson and

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the barenaked ladies that's a pretty

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daunting thing and those guys are scare

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anybody but you practice and you learn

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you prepare and you think about it you

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visualize

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and it's amazing if you just take one

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little step of self-improvement at a

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time

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where it can lead you in and how much

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you thank you

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hi chris my name is laura austin from

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sarnia ontario and i was wondering if

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fractures or wounds heal faster in zero

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boy i hope we never find out um

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you know we're living up here is quite

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different it's a very sterile

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environment i read somewhere that you're

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never more on the surface of the earth

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you're never more than 10 feet away from

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a spider

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just if you count the number of spiders

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around but i think on space station

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we i don't think i'm

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i think the nearest spider is 400

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kilometers away we ever live in a very

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sterile environment up here and for

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whatever reason

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it changes our body's physiology not

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just bone density and muscle strength

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but also our immune system our immune

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system tends to depress a little and we

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don't load our bones up as heavily

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because as you can see everything just

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floats i don't even have to hold my head

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up my head is floating on top of my neck

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so

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uh we haven't broken a major bone up

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here

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but my guess is they would heal more

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slowly just because they're not

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subject to the all of the

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regular stressors that help our bodies

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be tough and strong and that we've

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evolved to over the last you know

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however many million years this is

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almost like trying to recover from

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something

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while you're floating in gelatin or

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maybe in on a on a water bed

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and even though some things may look

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like they're happening quicker whether

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they'll get that toughness and that

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tenacity and that interwoven strength

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that we need in order to stay healthy on

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earth i'm not sure but we work really

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hard not to have any major wounds or to

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thank you

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okay chris that's going to be our last

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question i think your break is over it's

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time for you to get back to work i know

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you got a lot to do today

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uh one big thank you to you from all of

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us here we really appreciate it and

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really we only have one other word to

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describe what you're doing and that's

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amazing all the best to you we'll talk

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hey thanks jeremy let me let me just

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jump in before people applaud here um

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let me just say

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that i'm sorry i didn't get to all the

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questions if there were more but jeremy

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is one of our crew support astronauts

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i've known jeremy gosh for

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over a decade um he's immensely capable

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and qualified and i'm sure he'll be able

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to answer your questions and thank you

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very much jeremy for coming all the way

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up to host today and for taking care of

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the visitors to the space agency it's an

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amazing place the canadian space agency

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it makes this possible

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and uh and so we take a lot of pride in

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it and have a good look around today

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everybody thanks a lot jeremy hi to

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everybody at the space agency and i need

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station this is houston acr

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