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hi welcome to mission control houston

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we're here in the international space

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station flight control room and i am

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brandi dean i'm working the public

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affairs office here and i've got here

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with me dory tomaica who is the visiting

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vehicle officer on the space station

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flight control team so i'm gonna let her

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tell a little bit about herself and then

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i hear you have some questions for us

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dory

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thanks brandi hey guys um like i said my

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name is dory and i've worked here at

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nasa since uh

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for five years now full time um but

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before that i actually worked here when

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i was in college so i started back in

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2004 and i worked here every other

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semester so i've gotten a lot of

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experience while i've been here

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um and like she said i'm in the visiting

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vehicle office and so we work in mission

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control

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for the space station and we are in

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charge of space station safety

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when there's another vehicle coming to

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the space station so lots of vehicles

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come the russians have their progress in

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soyuz the europeans have a vehicle the

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japanese space agency has a vehicle and

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now they're two u.s vehicles who are

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coming and so

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anytime those vehicles are near the iss

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the the vvo is in charge of making sure

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that they're being safe and that the iss

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is safe and the crew is safe and you'll

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have a vehicle that's coming soon right

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we do yeah next weekend we'll have

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dragon which is a spacex's vehicle and

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they're based out of l.a out in

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california all right well thanks dory

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okay i hear uh that you all have some

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questions for us there in phoenix so

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give us a second

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remember

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how do astronauts maintain muscle mass

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and microgravity

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how do astronauts maintain muscle mass

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and microgravity that's a really good

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question and something that's really

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important on the space station uh the

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astronauts do a lot of exercise they

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have exercise in their schedules every

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day they have different kinds of

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exercise they can do of course it's all

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modified to make it work in space and so

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sometimes they actually have to use kind

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of bungee cords to attach themselves to

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the equipment to kind of gravity or

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simulate gravity but they have things

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like treadmills and exercise bikes and

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then they do weights and things like

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that too so lots of the same exercises

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we do on earth just a little bit

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modified yeah they have special

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equipment for it to make it work without

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do you use robotic mechanical arms on

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the space station

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do we use a lot of mechanical arms on

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the space station we do have uh we do

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big one that you've probably seen is the

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ss rms and that's the really big arm

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that we're actually going to use next

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weekend for when dragon comes up

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dragon's going to come real close to

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station and then the arm's going to come

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out and grab it

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the japanese have their own smaller arm

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that they use on their module for their

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science experiments but robotics is very

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big at the space station

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and i think sometimes there are

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astronauts that go on the end of the

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robotic arm to move around during

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spacewalks and there's also a robot that

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lives inside the space station called

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robonaut 2 so it's not a robotic arm but

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do you have a lot of oxygen tanks or how

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do you clean the air in the space

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so the space station has oxygen

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scrubbers and they're these machines

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that basically clean the oxygen for us

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and so that's how we kind of recirculate

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that air and keep it clean and keep it

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items in it for good breathing and

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what is the process for becoming an

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it kind of depends lots of people will

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apply to become astronauts that's the

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first step you have to send in an

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application and sometimes you have to

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send in different applications you won't

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get it your first try or your second try

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it's you know they get thousands of

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applications and they pick just a

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handful of astronauts when they pick a

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new class that's what they call them um

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but there's an an application process

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there's an interview process and there's

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a lot of testing you have to do

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physically to make sure you can handle

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really being an astronaut because being

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zero g is tough on your body

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it too where they um they make sure that

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you know if you're going to be stuck in

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you know a house imagine with six people

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for six months you want to make sure

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that you're really good at getting along

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with people and so that's a little bit

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of it too that you really have the right

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personality for it and then of course

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you have to have had enough schooling to

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really be able to help on the space

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station with doing all the science and

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everything so a lot of the astronauts

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degrees so those are kind of the broad

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areas and most of them have the degrees

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field so it's kind of a specific area

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you have to start studying early on so

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you're good enough to be

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uh what up mom does everybody uh get

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yeah i think so i think you know it's

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it's just like you know if you put six

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people together like i said for a while

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wish you could you know get by yourself

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time and so but these people are all

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really good at getting along and they're

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all really great friends too they train

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so they're really a team and almost like

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a family by the time they go up there so

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yeah they get along really well and they

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have a lot of fun too

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we have a robotics class on campus how

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extensively are robots used in the

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program and what type of robots are used

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before but we use robotics a lot in the

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really integral part a lot of the work

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entire space station so we use that a

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robot astronaut and now we're just

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starting to really get to use him but

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he's going to be able to do tasks

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prepare a lot before we do it and we

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send them out there when they have

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really important things to do and so if

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robonaut and actually you can uh talk

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astro robonaut so y'all can find out a

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who made the food the packet the food

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food and it's it's difficult we try to

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people from different countries here and

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nutrition and get a good balanced diet

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crew to the space station via the soyuz

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take people up on it so that's how

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everybody's going up and back right now

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for cargo for for non-people we have

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called htv and those are both cargo

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vehicles that come to the space station

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and now we have two u.s companies dragon

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that we were talking about so it's

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coming next week and bringing up some

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cargo and supplies and some science

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are the types of careers

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what other type of careers are possible

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different types of things you can do at

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write a lot and there's really not not a

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whole lot of areas that nasa doesn't

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touch in some way but most people are

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going to be

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in the science or math or engineering

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go ahead and make me

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and we apologize for the color bars it

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looks like our feed got interrupted uh

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from um mission control so we're going

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to try to reconnect it now you guys are

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asking lots of great questions about

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robots and you guys were asking about r2

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and i wanted to show you a picture of r2

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it's an anthropomorphic robot so what do

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you guys think an anthropomorphic robot

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is

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okay thanks

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does it look like a human

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yeah very human-like as you can see it's

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got a head it's got a torso it's got

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oh there we go

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yeah specific daily routines on the

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the daily routines on the space station

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yeah that actually the days are very

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scheduled on the space station because

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time and space is really important we

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have a lot of science we want to get

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done we have a lot we have vehicles that

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are coming up we have robotics things we

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want to do and so the day is very well

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scheduled and one of the things is that

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you know we start the day at a set time

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and we end the day at a set time and we

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have lunch we try to keep it at you know

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around lunchtime same with dinner and so

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we schedule activities in between those

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times and so yeah everything's very

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scheduled and the ground and the crew

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can both see that schedule both for that

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day and in the future we plan a lot in

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advance

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it's planned very detailed too down to i

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think five minute increments so that

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they know what they are supposed to be

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doing at any given time and uh so that

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the ground makes sure that they have

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enough time for the things that they're

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asking them to do and they don't run out

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of time before they're before the task

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and uh ready for your next question if

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what does uh mission control do

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mission control does a whole lot of jobs

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actually if you've seen a picture of

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mission control you can see there are a

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lot of different desks we got those

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consoles and each console does something

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different but the main job of mission

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control is to help the space station to

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help the crew and to help the actual the

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structure the space station itself to do

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what it needs to get done so we have

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people like me the videos that are in

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charge of safety when there's a vehicle

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coming to the space station we have

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people that are in charge of the

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computers onboard the space station and

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making sure they run we have people that

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are in charge of keeping the life

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support systems working well so the

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oxygen like we talked about and water

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we have people that just run every

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different piece keeping a space station

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in the right place in space so just

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about anything you can think of there

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are even people that have to figure out

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you know where stuff is stored on the

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space station because you know you have

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closets in your house but on the space

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station there are closets on the walls

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and on the floor and on the ceiling

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and so think about you're living in your

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house and then six months later new

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people come into your house you have no

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idea where they put the scissors or

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where the stapler is and so we on the

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ground have to help out with that too to

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kind of keep track of where things are

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so lots of things that mission control

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ready for your next question

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um how difficult is it using the zero

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gravity toilet

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that's always a fun question huh so i've

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never gotten to use it myself uh but i

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have talked to some of the astronauts

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and one of the things is they do a lot

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of training on the ground we do training

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for everything and that's that's not an

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exception you know you have to learn how

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the machine works because it's

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definitely different than a regular

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toilet and you have to learn how to use

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it properly and then once they have that

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training it's it's not difficult

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it's just a different process they have

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to learn

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next

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how many different types of jobs are at

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mission control

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how many different types of jobs are in

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mission control it's it's hard to count

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uh get a real count because

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if you are you can see where we are

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there are a number of deaths just like

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the one we're sitting at here

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who each have a person

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at it doing a specific job and each of

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those desks has

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somebody who sits at them all day so

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there's

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three people who um sit at them you know

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for about eight or nine hours at a time

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and they switch off so that there's

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always somebody there and each of those

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desks also has a whole room of people

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usually um that sits somewhere else not

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in this room but uh that backs them up

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on different activities they might have

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to do somewhere else so

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it's a it's a lot of people it keeps it

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takes a lot of people to keep the space

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next question

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um what kind of college course work is

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needed to follow the career field of an

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astronaut

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like we had talked about you know most

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of the astronauts are involved in

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technology or science or engineering

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and so you would get you start off with

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your bachelor's degree in one of those

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areas and then you kind of figure out

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what you want your specialty to be and

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then they'll go and get a master's in

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that and most of the time they'll even

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go and get a phd so you know the highest

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kind of degree you can get to really

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become an expert on that subject

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and i think a lot of the astronauts

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would tell you that

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their recommendation is because it's so

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hard to be an astronaut you should

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really study something that you love

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anyway that you'll love doing even if

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you're not going to do it as an

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astronaut so that

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that also helps you

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learn to be

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really the best in your field if you

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love it you'll work hard at it and so

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that increases your chance of being an

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astronaut but it also gives you a backup

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plan if you're not able to be an

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astronaut

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what temperatures outside of space

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stations do you experience and how

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temperatures adjusted for the

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temperature change

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that's a good question um when it is

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nighttime outside the space station so

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the the space station is going around

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the earth so

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about half the time it's in the sunlight

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and half the time it's behind the earth

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and so it's in dark and when it's in the

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dark it's way below freezing outside and

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when it's in the sun it's much hotter

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than it ever gets on earth and so you

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can get really big temperature

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differences and so when the crew is

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inside the space station maintains a

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good temperature for them and it uses

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different ways to either collect the sun

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and use its energy to help heat the

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station or to kind of reject some of

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that heat to keep it

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at the right temperature when it gets

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too hot and then when the astronauts go

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outside to do their spacewalks their

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suits do that for them

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their suits have um little has water

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running through it and they can control

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the temperature of the water and that

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will help control the temperature inside

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the spacesuit to keep them from getting

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too hot or too cold

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and for when it's really cold if it's

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nighttime and they're working on

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something they really need their fingers

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for they have heaters and their gloves

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that keep their fingers warm so

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lots of things that that goes into

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keeping you comfortable when you're in

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space

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uh

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oh

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what kind of jobs are on the space

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so the astronauts when they're on the

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space station do a lot of different

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things um the the thing you probably

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hear the most about is is the science

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you know they're doing all kinds of

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really cool experiments and doing things

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that we can only do in space you know

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figuring out how gravity affects

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different things and so that's what they

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really enjoy doing they love doing

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science um but they also really like

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looking at the earth we do a lot of

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studying of the earth taking pictures of

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the earth um

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sometimes when we have things like

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hurricanes that are coming the

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astronauts will actually help with that

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and take pictures of that for the ground

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since we get a really good view of that

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and then there are things that they have

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to do just to just to keep the space

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station working so it's kind of like how

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you have to do some chores around your

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house to keep your house clean and

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functioning they have to do chores in

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space too and so they have to do some

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cleaning or they have to do some

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maintenance to keep some of the

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next question

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does the space station continue to grow

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in size to hold more astronauts

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cosmonauts etc

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the space station is pretty much done

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growing now uh it was designed to hold

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six people and that's where we are and

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so we're gonna keep rotating those six

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people in and out but uh we don't intend

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to get much bigger put many more people

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in there it's pretty much the size it's

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gonna be it's a live view that you're

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seeing here of uh what the space station

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looks like on the inside right now this

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is the destiny laboratory which is

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the united space

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the united states laboratory

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there are

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three different laboratories on the

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united states side of the space station

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there's one from the u.s and then also

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one from europe and one from japan and

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then the russian side of the space

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station has a couple of other modules so

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they're it's really big it's about as

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long as uh

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about the size of a football field with

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the solar arrays

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and um there's actually i think the crew

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members tend to tell you that um that

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there's plenty of room for six people in

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there and actually they are able to

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spend a lot of their time kind of by

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themselves working and they don't

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necessarily work side by side all the

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next question

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what kind of training do they do

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um

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in nasa

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what kind of training do we do at nasa

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training for the astronauts

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they do all sorts of training they spend

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a lot of their time doing training to

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get ready

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they do things from training for example

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how to fix a computer that may break

553
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because we don't you know you can't just

554
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send

555
00:21:14,630 --> 00:21:13,280
you can't call somebody to come fix your

556
00:21:16,070 --> 00:21:14,640
computer in space right you kind of have

557
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to know how to do it so we get training

558
00:21:18,950 --> 00:21:17,760
in that kind of stuff

559
00:21:20,230 --> 00:21:18,960
they also get training for all the

560
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science they're going to have to do so

561
00:21:23,270 --> 00:21:21,440
they understand what they're going to

562
00:21:24,549 --> 00:21:23,280
need to be doing for the experiments

563
00:21:26,230 --> 00:21:24,559
they do a lot of training if they're

564
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going to do space walks

565
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to make sure they understand what

566
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they're doing and where they're going to

567
00:21:32,470 --> 00:21:30,960
go in space it's really choreographed

568
00:21:33,990 --> 00:21:32,480
almost like a dance when they go out in

569
00:21:35,110 --> 00:21:34,000
space where they know exactly where

570
00:21:37,190 --> 00:21:35,120
they're gonna put their hand or where

571
00:21:39,190 --> 00:21:37,200
they're gonna put their foot it's very

572
00:21:40,789 --> 00:21:39,200
precise and then of course they train

573
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just generically on things like using

574
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the robotic arm it's a really big arm

575
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and they have to learn how to handle it

576
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and how to work it very smoothly for

577
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things like capturing vehicles so a lot

578
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of training there and then the people on

579
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the ground also do training

580
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we do some things called simulations and

581
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that's where we set computers up that

582
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run and pretend like the space station

583
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is running and pretend like for example

584
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dragon is coming um and so we actually

585
00:22:06,630 --> 00:22:05,039
see graphics just like it's really

586
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happening in real life and the entire

587
00:22:09,990 --> 00:22:08,559
mission control team will practice and

588
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pretend like it's really happening and

589
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so we practice all the stuff we're gonna

590
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have to do on the ground too

591
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how long did you have to train to be a

592
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visiting vehicle officer so like i said

593
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i've been here for five years and as

594
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brandi mentioned for each of the

595
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positions that's here there's actually

596
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more people helping them in different

597
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rooms and so we first get trained to go

598
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ahead and work and we call those in the

599
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back rooms

600
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and so i got trained to work three

601
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different positions in the back room

602
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before i got to come up here and work in

603
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the front room and i got my

604
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certification last year so it took me

605
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about four years of training to be able

606
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to make it into actual mission control

607
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and you have to kind of go step by step

608
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right you take one one uh position at a

609
00:22:47,510 --> 00:22:45,360
time learn how to do it well then move

610
00:23:03,830 --> 00:22:47,520
on to the next one exactly

611
00:23:06,630 --> 00:23:05,110
i'm sorry we weren't able to hear that

612
00:23:09,190 --> 00:23:06,640
one i don't think their microphone your

613
00:23:12,070 --> 00:23:09,200
microphone was turned on

614
00:23:14,470 --> 00:23:12,080
what does robonaut do now in space what

615
00:23:15,590 --> 00:23:14,480
does robonaut do now so robonaut just

616
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like we were talking about he's kind of

617
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in training right now um you know he

618
00:23:20,310 --> 00:23:19,039
went up there and now he's kind of

619
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learning the things he's going to be

620
00:23:23,510 --> 00:23:22,000
doing and so they're they're doing some

621
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testing with him they're using him for

622
00:23:26,789 --> 00:23:25,120
very small things inside the space

623
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station right now and because it's

624
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everybody has to learn you know the

625
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astronauts have to learn what it's like

626
00:23:33,830 --> 00:23:32,000
to work next to a robot because he's new

627
00:23:35,190 --> 00:23:33,840
there and robonaut has to learn about

628
00:23:37,270 --> 00:23:35,200
the kinds of things he can do in the

629
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space station and the team on the ground

630
00:23:40,870 --> 00:23:39,360
that helps control robot needs to learn

631
00:23:42,710 --> 00:23:40,880
you know how he works in space and what

632
00:23:44,149 --> 00:23:42,720
kind of things they can do

633
00:23:46,070 --> 00:23:44,159
so right now he's kind of in training

634
00:23:47,350 --> 00:23:46,080
just like the rest of us go through um

635
00:23:48,950 --> 00:23:47,360
and then like we said eventually he'll

636
00:23:50,549 --> 00:23:48,960
be able to go and do things for the

637
00:23:51,350 --> 00:23:50,559
astronauts to kind of help save them

638
00:23:52,470 --> 00:23:51,360
time

639
00:23:53,990 --> 00:23:52,480
some of the stuff that's going to be a

640
00:23:55,990 --> 00:23:54,000
little bit too boring for the astronauts

641
00:23:57,990 --> 00:23:56,000
to do because robonauts robots don't

642
00:24:06,630 --> 00:23:58,000
mind if it's boring

643
00:24:12,470 --> 00:24:09,110
how can you don't go to any other states

644
00:24:14,630 --> 00:24:12,480
any other planets but the moon

645
00:24:15,990 --> 00:24:14,640
yeah we we don't yet we want to and we

646
00:24:17,750 --> 00:24:16,000
want to go and explore lots of other

647
00:24:19,669 --> 00:24:17,760
places you know maybe some other planets

648
00:24:21,350 --> 00:24:19,679
or some asteroids or even farther than

649
00:24:23,669 --> 00:24:21,360
that so definitely we're looking at

650
00:24:25,750 --> 00:24:23,679
going you know way beyond the earth

651
00:24:27,269 --> 00:24:25,760
and we hope to do that in the future but

652
00:24:29,029 --> 00:24:27,279
it's it's like training you have to take

653
00:24:30,630 --> 00:24:29,039
little steps so the moon's the closest

654
00:24:32,390 --> 00:24:30,640
thing so that's the first baby step that

655
00:24:34,149 --> 00:24:32,400
we take and we practice on that and then

656
00:24:36,230 --> 00:24:34,159
we'll keep going we're actually building

657
00:24:37,350 --> 00:24:36,240
a new spaceship right now called the

658
00:24:38,870 --> 00:24:37,360
orion

659
00:24:40,149 --> 00:24:38,880
that's going to let us take people to

660
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other planets we

661
00:24:46,149 --> 00:24:42,720
believe we'll be able to go to the moon

662
00:24:48,149 --> 00:24:46,159
or asteroids or even mars on orion and

663
00:24:51,190 --> 00:24:48,159
you can find out more about that online

664
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too at www.nasa.gov

665
00:24:57,190 --> 00:24:52,880
orion

666
00:25:01,029 --> 00:24:58,789
i just want to thank you for talking to

667
00:25:03,029 --> 00:25:01,039
my students but uh also

668
00:25:04,950 --> 00:25:03,039
some context about two months ago they

669
00:25:07,190 --> 00:25:04,960
spoke to one of the designers of

670
00:25:09,669 --> 00:25:07,200
robonaut cody hensley i think he works

671
00:25:11,830 --> 00:25:09,679
in your building oh okay

672
00:25:13,430 --> 00:25:11,840
so you know they had some context my

673
00:25:15,430 --> 00:25:13,440
question though is

674
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did the people uh astronauts on the

675
00:25:19,669 --> 00:25:16,960
space station have

676
00:25:21,909 --> 00:25:19,679
any uh opinions or sightings of the

677
00:25:25,750 --> 00:25:21,919
asteroid

678
00:25:29,909 --> 00:25:27,350
i don't think that

679
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they had any from the space station that

680
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that they saw we are watching we watched

681
00:25:35,510 --> 00:25:33,919
it really closely at nasa

682
00:25:36,950 --> 00:25:35,520
and we actually

683
00:25:39,190 --> 00:25:36,960
have some pictures online if you want to

684
00:25:41,430 --> 00:25:39,200
go look at nasa.gov there's a lot of

685
00:25:44,549 --> 00:25:41,440
information there about the asteroid

686
00:25:46,470 --> 00:25:44,559
that flew by um that we knew was coming

687
00:25:48,390 --> 00:25:46,480
on friday the big one and also the one

688
00:25:50,549 --> 00:25:48,400
that hit russia so there's there's lots

689
00:25:52,549 --> 00:25:50,559
of interesting information there

690
00:25:54,070 --> 00:25:52,559
and uh one of the groups that works here

691
00:25:55,909 --> 00:25:54,080
pointing is another group in mission

692
00:25:57,830 --> 00:25:55,919
control and they were looking into the

693
00:25:59,350 --> 00:25:57,840
crew being able to see that and i think

694
00:26:01,269 --> 00:25:59,360
one of the things they said is that it's

695
00:26:03,430 --> 00:26:01,279
it was too small to actually see very

696
00:26:05,430 --> 00:26:03,440
easily you know space is really large

697
00:26:06,789 --> 00:26:05,440
and so uh it was a little bit too small

698
00:26:08,789 --> 00:26:06,799
for them to see just from the space

699
00:26:10,310 --> 00:26:08,799
station and it also depends on you know

700
00:26:11,909 --> 00:26:10,320
where the asteroid was and where the

701
00:26:13,590 --> 00:26:11,919
crew and the space station were at the

702
00:26:15,110 --> 00:26:13,600
time if the earth was in the way so i

703
00:26:17,029 --> 00:26:15,120
don't think we got to see that one i

704
00:26:18,390 --> 00:26:17,039
think it's good that it was too small to

705
00:26:19,510 --> 00:26:18,400
see that's what we like for asteroids

706
00:26:21,350 --> 00:26:19,520
close to earth

707
00:26:22,870 --> 00:26:21,360
uh we do um let

708
00:26:24,310 --> 00:26:22,880
the astronauts know though when there's

709
00:26:25,510 --> 00:26:24,320
going to be something cool in space to

710
00:26:26,710 --> 00:26:25,520
see that they're going to be able to see

711
00:26:28,710 --> 00:26:26,720
and a lot of times they're able to take

712
00:26:30,870 --> 00:26:28,720
good pictures and video which we all put

713
00:26:33,110 --> 00:26:30,880
on nasa.gov and you can see for yourself

714
00:26:33,990 --> 00:26:33,120
so there's lots of really cool pictures

715
00:26:35,830 --> 00:26:34,000
of

716
00:26:36,870 --> 00:26:35,840
just the earth and

717
00:26:38,870 --> 00:26:36,880
beautiful

718
00:26:42,070 --> 00:26:38,880
pictures of it and also

719
00:26:44,789 --> 00:26:42,080
the northern lights things like that and

720
00:26:46,470 --> 00:26:44,799
meteors hitting and um and

721
00:26:48,310 --> 00:26:46,480
you know burning up in the earth's

722
00:26:50,070 --> 00:26:48,320
atmosphere and lots of really cool

723
00:26:52,310 --> 00:26:50,080
phenomenon

724
00:26:54,149 --> 00:26:52,320
all right and dory and brandy thank you

725
00:26:56,390 --> 00:26:54,159
so much for answering all these

726
00:26:58,870 --> 00:26:56,400
wonderful questions um wanted to give

727
00:27:02,470 --> 00:26:58,880
salt river um a last chance to say thank

728
00:27:06,310 --> 00:27:04,230
thank you all great questions we really