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station this is houston are you ready

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for the event

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indiana state senate this is mission

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control in houston

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please call station for a voice check

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please

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station this is senator david long of

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senator long i have you loud and clear

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all the way from indiana to the

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international space station welcome

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great to be here commander ford thank

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well david i understand uh there's a

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quite a little bit of a delay and i know

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you all have some questions i'll go

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ahead and say just a few words if i

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could first of all it is really great to

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have you aboard the international space

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station with me all the way from indiana

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um it was an honor to be on the senate

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floor with you there in the state house

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today

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i understand it's a beautiful day in

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indiana i really probably should be at a

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window trying to get a good picture i've

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had a lot of passes over the state

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lately that were unfruitful for me

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because of a lot of morning fog and

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clouds and snow

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but that's the that's what you get with

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the winter months anyway my heart is

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there of course

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i haven't been living in indiana since

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since i graduated from notre dame

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because i had a career as an air force

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officer and then of course i've been at

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nasa now for about 12 13 years but i

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come there often and my family's there i

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understand they're with you today in the

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state house and i really appreciate you

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having them

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there and taking good care of them today

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as you know

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some of you know my brother david who

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served alongside you and and he was uh

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just as i'm honored to speak with you

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today he was just so honored to serve

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and uh and that

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in that group uh he respected everybody

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and that worked worked in the state

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house with him and he just he just loved

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serving the people and it's just an

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honor for me to be able to speak with so

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many of his friends that are still there

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and people who know him and benefited

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from what david brought there

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so it's a it's a huge honor to be with

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you of course and uh it's also an honor

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i'm very proud of where i came from and

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i'm also obviously very proud of where i

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am right now this is an amazing facility

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we have in space uh not that many people

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you know really understand what we're

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all about here

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we have about 150 experiments going on

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right now some of them inside the space

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station that i work with every day and

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as a crew member and many of them

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outside the space station that the

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ground controllers in houston are taking

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care of that we're not even aware of and

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it's just there are uh experiments right

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outside my window right now gathering

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data about the universe uh some of them

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alphabetically alpha magnetic

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spectrometer things about like dark

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matter and stuff that's really abstract

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with medical issues and stuff for the

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people on planet earth so it's really an

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important facility uh one of the things

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i'm most proud about is that it's also a

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work done by an international group in

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cooperation it is the one facility

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on the planet where some countries came

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countries sometimes with even very

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different interests 15 of the most

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affluent countries countries who had a

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lot to offer came together and thought

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about humankind a hundred years from now

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and what we could do now to make a

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difference in the future and i have

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russian cosmonaut crewmates

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just literally 50 feet from me right now

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who i rode up and down with to get to

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the space station i'm in a japanese

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module right now

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i was introduced to you by a canadian

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capcom that i was talking to just before

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i came on and it's truly an

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international effort and it really is uh

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i think that it's going to make a

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in the future of the planet that's

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really a program for the planet i think

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if you will another thing that's really

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cool about it is

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90 percent of the world's population if

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they know when to look

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go out in the evening or the morning and

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look in the sky and see their space

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station fly over so it's really a space

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station serving them and visible to them

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and i just think it's just a really

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really cool thing

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so i'm really honored to be here it's a

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it's a short even though i've been here

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100 and a little over 105 days and i've

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got just about another 40 on board it's

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really a short stay for me it's a once

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in a lifetime opportunity and the fact

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that you guys were to come on uh be able

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to come on board with me and talk to me

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just a little bit about it while i'm

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here is really special and hopefully

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i'll get to come back and see you and

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tell you even more about it when i get

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home given that our short time uh is you

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know our time is limited on board here

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so with that i'll go ahead like i said

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there's a bit of a delay i'll turn the

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mic off and i think you have some

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questions for me that i'd love to answer

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well commander first of all i want to

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welcome everyone participating today and

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that means school children across the

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state of indiana as well and in

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particular we wanted to know mrs brown's

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first grade class at seton catholic

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elementary school in richmond indiana we

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want to give them a special shout out

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but to all the young people watching uh

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hello and welcome

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i have several questions and i'll just

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ask them the sequence and let you answer

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them commander the first one you

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mentioned some experiments could you

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maybe describe the type of experiments

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you're conducting and how will it help

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the ground really all over the world who

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really have had problems

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that they've wanted to solve and a zero

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microgravity but it's essentially zero

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gravity environment is a great place to

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solve these problems

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stuff i've worked on uh since i've been

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here one one is just just 10 feet from

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me was in a fish aquarium and we had

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fish on board called madoka that have

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not all fish do but these did and as a

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as a science experiment to actually

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study the way bone is created and

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destroyed and of course astronauts we

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lose a we lose a fair amount of bone

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mass while we're up here and it's very

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closely related to osteoporosis and they

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have a real good chance of making a huge

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difference in osteoporosis in the

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elderly in the future and wouldn't that

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be wonderful if someday osteoporosis was

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a thing that we used to talk about

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of different things that they look at us

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look at preventive majors uh much like

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to look at with you know some bed rest

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patients and stuff on the ground we also

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flow where we're looking at how bubbles

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seen maybe the nurse trying to flick

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bubbles out of the end of a syringe by

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microgravity environment with bigger

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bubbles they can understand what's going

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of the past too we'll just we'll know

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vessels and it's also applicable to

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fuel and fuel tanks and that sort of

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thing outside we're looking at robotic

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visit say satellites already out there

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materials uh handle the space

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environment of course that's very

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satellites so we want to last a long

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time so it's just that's a that's four

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mentions of a broad brush i mean there

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hundreds of ideas about 150 going on at

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blackford high school in notre dame both

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here in indiana what classes did you

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take in high school and in college to

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school i i didn't see myself as an

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astronaut i i certainly would love to

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i was in love with aviation i saw myself

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as a pilot at that time and i enjoyed

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physics and math and science so i took

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the things i enjoyed and i you know i

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would encourage students to find the

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things the areas they really love the

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most and just put their heart into those

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all of the subjects it turns out to be

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an astronaut are very important

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language skills i spoke russian in the

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capsule coming up and down and and

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you know knowledge of english and it's

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language structure and that sort of

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thing you you know you're not really

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prepared to go out and do that so the

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the the liberal arts are also just very

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important uh to to a lot of the things

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stuff is a big part of what i do now

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really thinking about it i was just

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thinking about taking a lot of math and

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science and physics and the things i

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enjoyed and then when i went to notre

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dame i studied engineering because it's

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just what i loved and and i wanted to be

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a pilot and i wanted to understand

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exactly how the airplane works before i

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understa went to to fly them and and

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enjoy that part of the the career field

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classes i liked worrying more about the

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learning i think than the grades just

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learn as much as you can for those

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russian but we were wondering what it's

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like to be in space with fellow

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astronauts from other nations in this

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case russia and japan and is there a

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language barrier or cultural barrier can

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well there's not as much as you'd think

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obviously different kinds of foods

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different kinds of traditions but we

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enjoy learning about each other's

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traditions uh the cosmonauts on board uh

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when i celebrated thanksgiving up here

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there were just three of us me and my uh

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two russian cosmonaut crewmates oleg and

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evgeny who i flew up on the soyuz with

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and they came down and enjoyed

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thanksgiving dinner with me and asked a

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lot of questions about it and i do the

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same thing uh the japanese astronaut is

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gone now i was here with akioside for a

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bit and uh he uh you know he's uh he's

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speaks great english the cosmonauts

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speak very very well in english as well

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and we have to learn some russian

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because in the spacecraft the soyuz

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spacecraft itself we do speak russian

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the ground controllers are speaking to

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us in russian and that's just the

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language of operations all the books are

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written that way so we have we have to

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study those and frankly to get through

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that language barrier you just need a

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lot a lot of study time thousands of

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hours of actually of time i've spent

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studying russian over the last 10 years

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you know to prepare for the for the

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flight but it's all something given the

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amount of you know given some time that

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uh that you can get to and we speak a

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little bit of what we call ruthless

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they'll speak usually english to me to

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try their english and i'll see if i

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understand that and when i have a

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question for them or i go to them with

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the request i try to do it in russian

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and that's just a it's a good good

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operational technique and we sometimes

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use both languages to make sure we get

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well commander we have a couple of

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special guests here with us who each are

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going to ask you a question it's joel

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and kelly neff from uh you're

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from from indiana i think you know the

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family from montpelier joel is going to

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what do you eat for breakfast lunch and

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well that's a that's a great question uh

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joel and welcome aboard the space

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station uh it's great to have you here

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we uh we have a food lab in houston and

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in russia and in europe that prepares

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food for us to eat and they pre-package

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it um i do have some handy here that i

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can show you so for breakfast i you know

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i'm i i'm kind of a boring guy i kind of

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eat almost the same thing every morning

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but one of the things i have is is

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scrambled eggs and they come dried and

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they just have to be rehydrated i hope

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you can see that this has seasoned

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scrambled eggs on it at the little top

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at the top there is a little place where

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we can inject a needle and inject 100

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milliliters of hot water in here and you

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give it 15 minutes and you let the

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seasoning mix in and you have yourself

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some scrambled eggs and then i always

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grab some fruit also

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this happens to be apples with spice and

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it's come it's it's already it comes

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it's already packaged

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as hydrated and you just clip the

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package open and you can eat the uh the

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apples uh right out of it

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so um

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we sometimes get some food in cans too

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here's a food from

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the european space agency and it's

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packaged in a can and it's just got a

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pull ring there just a little pop top so

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that we can just open it up and eat out

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of the can and then we you know we just

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throw the the remnants away so i'll go

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get that in a little bit and then to

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drink i usually have a little coffee for

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breakfast or some orange juice or maybe

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a breakfast drink or something and it

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comes in just a little foil pouch

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with a mix inside and then we inject

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water again into the top just like we

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would those eggs and then we just put a

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straw in here that has a clip so that i

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can just

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let a little squeeze out you can see a

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little little juice coming out the top

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of the straw there

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i'll squeeze a little out and and have

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there we go not too big a mess

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what is the first thing you're looking

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the first thing i'm looking forward to

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doing is taking a shower because i

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haven't had a shower in 107 days

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but the second thing i'm looking forward

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to doing is really just getting some

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relaxation

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the pace up here is pretty intense we we

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work a lot because it's expensive to get

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us up here so even on weekends we end up

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doing a lot of work

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so i'm looking forward to just having a

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little time off i'll have a

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some time to do some rehabilitation

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it'll be very difficult for me to work

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at first

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to do anything really that involves

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muscles because of the gravity effect

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it's just a really strange heavy feeling

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when you get home you're used to no

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gravity even holding your head up in

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space is effortless so your neck muscles

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kind of get lazy

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so um just moving around so i have to do

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a lot of rehabilitation

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and uh and get used to the environment

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again and then after that uh start to go

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out and really enjoy some things of

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course i'm looking forward to some of

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the foods you can't have up here we

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don't have pizza we don't have ice cream

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very often we had a little bit when i

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first got here

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and also spending time outside i'm in an

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environment here that has all walls with

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equipment on all sides we can use any of

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them as racks and science we have

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science on the floor science on the

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ceiling and all walls and so it's just a

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busy environment so i'm looking forward

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to getting back out in nature again

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that's that's what i'm really looking

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forward to most besides family and

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friends of course so thanks for the the

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commander ford this is state senator tim

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lane and i have another question for you

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and it is how important is it that the

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u.s continue the manned space flight and

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well i think it's very important that

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that somebody continue it of course and

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i'd like to think that that somebody

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will be the united states

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we've always been a leader in space we

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frankly are a country who is very

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blessed with a lot of assets

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and a lot of really great technical and

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technological skill sets things that we

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can really contribute i think to the

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human race and so it's almost in my

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opinion our obligation to do it but i

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think we really ought to want to

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participate in it as well

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um

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it's it's uh absolutely true that space

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is the final frontier that's where we're

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heading um some someday a lot of people

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are going to know how to operate out

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here and live off the planet and i think

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it's important that the united states

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participate in

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it's really a small part of

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what we do with our money is to explore

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but i think the exploration is

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absolutely critical we do it at home in

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our families we spend time traveling and

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going out and seeing things and i think

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as a race we should go out and see

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what's out here too learn how to live

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out here and

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trust me there is a lot of stuff i since

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i've arrived on the space station i've

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just had my eyes watered in terms of

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what this science up here is all about

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and what it looks like on board so i'm

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looking forward to coming home and

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sharing that with you and i'm just i'm

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just a real believer even more so than i

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was 107 days ago when i first left the

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commander uh this is senator long again

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sir land had a couple more questions but

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we're running out of time i want to

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reconvene the senate at this time we

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have a special thing for you from us

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which we will all sign and give to you

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when you're back on earth with us the

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senate is reconvened

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there is a special senate resolution

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commander recognizing your tremendous

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life so far all the wonderful things

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you've done as an air force pilot highly

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decorated i won't go into all the awards

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uh the fact that you earned a phd in

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astronautical engineering well on the

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air force the fact that you've had so

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achievements in your life at this time

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without going to the details

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i'm going to ask the senate to join me

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in endorsing this resolution on behalf

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of commander kevin ford all in favor say

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aye

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opposed nay

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the resolution is passed commander thank

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you so much for joining us today it's

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well thank you uh thank you to all the

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senators there and uh to all of you in

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the general assembly and really all the

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people of indiana so i love i love the

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place i can't wait to come home and see

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you i have a little flag that flew up

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with me it also flew up with me on

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discovery and back down so this flag has

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made all the all the trips to space i

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have it will have the same amount of

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time i've had in space and you'll be

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seeing it when i get it home to you you

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all have a great great thursday and

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thank you sir it's been an honor

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the event thank you

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thank you to the indiana state senate

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station we're now resuming operational