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station this is houston are you ready

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houston this is station we are ready for

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the event

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wboi radio this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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station this is wboy radio how do you

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wbui in uh fort wayne i think we hear

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you loud and clear how do you hear me on

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board the international space station

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loud and clear you guys you guys sound

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all right commander kevin ford and

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flight engineer tom marshburn thanks

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you're welcome great uh great to have

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you on board uh tom and i have put in uh

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almost a full day already of work and uh

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we get to take a little time out once in

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a while and talk to folks on the ground

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so it's uh it's great to be with you

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we're here in the destiny laboratory and

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uh doing doing various kinds of things

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today some science going on and some

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maintenance going on and we're happy to

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take any kind of questions you might

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have about what we're doing up here

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well commander ford let's uh start with

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you tell us about the mission of

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expedition 34 what are you and engineer

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well the whole purpose of the space

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station has always been to do as much

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science as we can the microgravity

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really zero gravity if you will is it's

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a very unique environment to do things

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that scientists in many cases can only

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hundreds of experiments that we are

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do it for them certainly no shortage of

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there it sounds terribly exciting

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engineer tom marshburn um i want to

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program the daily life is nice

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photographs the view of the earth

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discovery and

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engineers who designed this really

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earth and you can see it all down below

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instruction but having to put your hands

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tears to get here but

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really a wonderful part of our hoosier

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station this is houston acr uh we lost

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okay going over to news 14. copy that

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read you loud and clear this is uh tom

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excellent

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first commander ford you've been there

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of months before we arrived but i think

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things to learn but uh we're in full

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force now and getting a lot of work done

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experience no doubt about it

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you really know never know what's coming

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efficiently i'm still learning things

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the different dimensions for a while you

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keep our our vital uh the station's

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vital functions going uh but also

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experimental hardware we're always

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excited about that when that comes up

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there's a lot of a lot of work to be

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uh and in some ways the space station is

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assembly line some things come up we

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with the experimental hardware with uh

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materials and such that come up and then

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we were able to bring it back back down

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on our soyuz so we were able to get a

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rapid turnaround of uh experimental

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results and that's exciting we probably

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each have a little bit of bonus food a

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little bit of extra food that we like on

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there and as you saw just a little bit

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of fresh fruit that they throw in the

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hatch right before it launches and so we

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get to enjoy that and that's very

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dr marshburn we are monitoring your

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twitter feed uh you are seriously in the

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twitter verse uh you've taken some

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beautiful pictures up there including

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the north carolina mountains and the

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outer banks what has been your favorite

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part and have you been able to identify

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your hometown of statesville or davidson

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college where you got your physics

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degree or wake forest where you got your

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well the southeast united states is very

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unique and where we where i grew up in

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north carolina

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and where you live now is a very unique

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place on the planet one of the nice

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things about it is it's it's so green

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and so verdant there

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even in the wintertime that's a little

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bit hard to pick out the cities i have

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seen

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area

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and i'm going to try to get a picture at

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night so i can say that i can pinpoint

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it exactly

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but it's a beautiful place there and we

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love to love to catch it as we

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uh go across

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the piedmont area it's a little bit more

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rare than i ever realized before it goes

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by fast when we cross it as on our

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orbital track

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but we all have our favorite spots i

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love mountains i love the

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southern part of south america the

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patagonian mountains and the himalayas

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when we go across there that's

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supposed that we all have our favorite

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i only wish i could uh get some of those

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uh get a view of that you know our

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parent company time warner cable is

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heavily involved in the connect a

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million minds movement basically we're

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trying to get more kids involved in

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science technology and math how critical

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were these areas of study for getting

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well one thing astronauts frequently

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tell students and it's it's a very true

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statement is first of all you fall in

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love with something and

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studying hard and taking a wide

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breadth of types of courses

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helps you in that regard if you're

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curious if you fall in love with

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something then i would use the time in

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school to get really good at learning

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how to learn and learning how to learn

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anything but particularly the subject

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that you love and if you love it you'll

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do well in it but maintaining a high

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level of curiosity doing as well as you

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can in school so that you have the tools

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you need

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then you're on your road to becoming an

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astronaut if that's what you want to be

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up here we're learning every day it's

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it's a skill that

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never goes away particularly in this

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type of job so i highly encourage

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students to fall in love with something

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look around and then get really good at

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and this question is for uh one or both

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of you this mission is being called the

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beehive of activity can you explain some

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of the experiments you're conducting

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so that we can understand it and how

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well uh yesterday i did an experiment

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called cap

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capillary flow experiment we just call

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it cfe for short because we love

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acronyms at nasa and this experiment is

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looking at different kinds of vessels

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and how best

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to control fluid in a vessel

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with a particular emphasis on bubbles

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and how bubbles move around i don't know

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if perhaps you've uh you've been in a

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hospital environment or a doctor's

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office and you've seen

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maybe the doctor or nurse trying to

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flick a bubble out the end before they

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before they hook it up and give you an

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iv or give you a shot or something like

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that and uh we have the same problem in

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fuel tanks for example and spacecraft

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and you might have these uh same kinds

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of problems in water lines and pumps on

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the ground and pumps don't like to mix

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water and air they like just pumping or

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fluid in air they like to just pump

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their fluid so this is a particular area

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of study that's been troubling for

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engineers for a long time and we did

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that i spent the afternoon yesterday

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working an experiment with some science

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scientists

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in portland oregon who who are focusing

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on this and because you can look at it

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in the microgravity environment you can

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look at bigger bubbles and how these

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move around and it's very very

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interesting extremely interesting we're

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able to control these things and move

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them to where we want so that's a big

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advance when i first arrived i did some

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work with some fish called madoka that

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have bone structure that's

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just like mammals and they can look at

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the way the bone is created and

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destroyed the osteoclasts and

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osteoblasts and learn a lot about what

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happens to us in space when our bones

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are unloaded for long periods of time

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and take this research back and maybe at

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some point eliminate something like

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osteoporosis some down sometime down the

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line would be a huge uh huge advance of

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course for so many so many people who

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suffer from that as elderly so um those

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are things we do weekly i'll let tom

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talk about a few others

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yeah we could keep on going and take up

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all the time with this there are over

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130 experiments going on uh some of

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which we're involved in some of which

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are going on to control from the ground

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or just even automatically i've been

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involved in some medical experiments as

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well we've been using ultrasound to look

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at the the ways in which the body

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changes here in zero gravity ultrasound

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obviously is not new but we're using it

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in ways that it's not used on the ground

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and as it turns out it has a lot of

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applications uh in medicine terrestrial

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medicine particularly in areas that are

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generally underserved and so it's been

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expanding medical care in underserved

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very good and

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well that's a great question all the

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fish have gone to science now so they

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all launched on my soyuz actually there

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were three crew members two cosmonauts

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oleg and yep guinea and myself on board

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of soyuz that launched back in october

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and 32 of these madoka fish and at

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various stages uh in their lives and

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development uh we fix them and they're

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ready for science now so they'll go home

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with us as well but uh as frozen as

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frozen fish and

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they'll look at how their bone was at

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the time that they were fixed so that's

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that's the way this experiment works and

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like i say it's just got so much

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potential

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to tell us a lot about

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degradation very good they gave their

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lives for science commander ford your

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time is uh on the space station is up

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next month dr marshburn you're coming

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home in may what will you miss most when

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you come home and what are you most

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looking forward to when you get back on

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though i'd say we all miss those we love

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uh the most in our friends

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but besides that

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i'll be looking forward forward to a hot

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shower some running water feeling the

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wind and maybe the grass or the sand on

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my feet and after that some food some

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fresh food would be great

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kevin

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and uh you know i'll just add uh we do

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live in a uh a beautiful space station

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it's about the interior volume of a 747

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but uh try spending uh four months into

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747 sometime

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so we we love it it's a very very

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special thing to get to do but i'm an

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outdoorsy kind of guy so i love being

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outside playing golf and going out for a

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run

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in my neighborhood in seabrook texas

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right now and so i'm looking forward to

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some time outside and like tom said uh

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seeing seeing wildlife again smelling

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grass and just really enjoying the

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planet because as beautiful as it is

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here uh really you live on the best the

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best uh spaceship that that is the

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planet earth so i'm looking forward to

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getting back and uh learning to live on

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again right commander ford dr marshburn

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thank you so much for joining us and dr

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marshburn when you get back down here we

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definitely want to catch up when you uh

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i can't wait looking forward to it very

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much thanks for the chance to talk to

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a station this is houston acr that

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thank you wboi radio and news hey kathy

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thanks very much station we are now