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station this is houston are you ready

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for the event houston are you ready for

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the event

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houston the international space station

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ctv studios this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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station this is canada am host beverly

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beverly in canada am i hear you loud and

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i can hear you very well commander

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hadfield thank you so much for doing

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i it's a real pleasure i i've been lucky

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enough to

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visit with you folks several times and

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to be able to talk to you today

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from this place doing these things is

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well and it's it's so great for us to be

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able to catch up with you you know we do

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a lot of interviews all over the world

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this is our first my first certainly

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doing one out of this world i have to

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ask you to tell us kind of you know not

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where in the world you are but literally

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where are you in the international space

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the international space station is

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enormous i mean it's a lot

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a lot bigger than most people think it's

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a bunch of laboratories bolted together

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i'm currently in one of those

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laboratories

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that's the universe just out the window

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we're inside the japanese laboratory

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just behind the camera is the european

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laboratory the american laboratory is

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over there the russian segment is down

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there and then all across it here bigger

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five hockey rinks is the whole space

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station it's it's a big place and we're

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just in one little corner of it here

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you know and it's just even though we

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know you're in weightlessness it's still

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pretty funny to see a microphone just

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kind of sitting floating around i have

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to ask you tell us how you spend your

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average day in space uh

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you wake up at 6 a.m we live on the

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greenwich time they they had to kind of

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split the pain between mission control

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and moscow and mission control in

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houston so they chose london england

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about halfway between so we wake up at 6

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london time uh you have an hour and a

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half or so in the morning to get

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yourself ready just like everybody does

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clean up uh

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go to the bathroom which is a little

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intricate in space make yourself some

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breakfast read the day's plan and then

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we have a meeting with all of the

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mission controls all around the world uh

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where we talk to each of them there's

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one in europe there's one in montreal

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there's one in houston moscow and japan

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and then once everyone's told us the

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important stuff for the day then we work

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experiments fixing equipment maintaining

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the vehicle all the various things you

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might do a couple breaks for for meals

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even my microphone floats as you say so

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uh so we exercise two hours a day

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and uh and then you have about an hour

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and a half in the evening to try and

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look out the window take some pictures

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play a little guitar talk to family

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and then go to bed get to six or seven

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hours sleep and repeat and we pretty

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much do that every day for the whole six

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and commander how are you feeling now

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that you've been up there as long as you

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have already and you've got you know

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the rest of your time there for your six

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it sounds weird it's not a very common

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word but i don't feel like an earthling

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uh way to be and at first it feels very

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strange but now you don't even think

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about it you're just if you want to put

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something somewhere you just let go of

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it and and uh you become

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graceful and elegant in weightlessness

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maybe like a a a porpoise in the water

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a swallow in the air and at first you're

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clumsy bump into things but after a

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while it really feels natural in fact

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nothing sags on your body so uh so it's

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gratifying when you're in your 50s and

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rare experience and that's just the

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there's so many interesting things that

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least of us we saw you making a peanut

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butter sandwich tell me about some of

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where you lie on your back and you make

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your whole lunch uh holding the food up

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in front of you above you

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everything that you open there's nothing

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to keep it in the container that's sort

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of what it's like i just brought a can

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typical food that we eat here this is um

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this is a white bean puree and it's uh

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you know it's got a pull top but of

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course if it's a liquid inside as soon

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make anything fresh of course because

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voyage anywhere a long sailing voyage

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where everything has to have a long

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health specialists on earth in in

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and at nasa and in russia and they

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really take good care of us there's a

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big variety of food it tastes good and

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something we look forward to both

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just for the food but also as a social

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about this mission and you've been able

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to share all of it with us through

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social media through taking pictures

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youtube of mount etna some of these

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how you have time to do it but you do do

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ground the canadian space agency has a

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team of people that have been working on

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helping me uh an old guy like me

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that whole team uh

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a lot of people in this and so they send

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that mount etna was erupting and uh and

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lighting might be good and so i set the

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the alarm on my watch here and um

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right time and grabbed the camera and

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you're working away in what looks sort

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of like a building and you float over to

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the window like that one there

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transported it's uh you suddenly there's

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the whole world in all of its curvature

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smoke and steam and and you float the

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big lens up in front of you and zoom in

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earth that we live on is is spewing the

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energy of the earth up into the high

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atmosphere where it's being picked up by

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the jet stream and carried out over the

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mediterranean and we're going eight

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kilometers a second so we come up you

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africa and then you come across the

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horizon and there's mount etna and you

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take pictures as it rolls by in front of

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you're over the black sea and and up and

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over kazakhstan and gone so it's it's uh

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working all day and all the science

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the the distraction of of what's out

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and the the lure of the magnificence of

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our own planet is a magnet that that

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constantly pulls you away

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and as such alert for everybody on here

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on earth and we've been watching with

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interest you've been speaking to so many

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students and classes they ask you great

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questions it must be wonderful for you

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to be able to share and see the

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excitement that these kids share in your

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yeah when i was a kid growing up it was

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the very start of space exploration back

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in the 60s and early 70s

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and i was fascinated by it i thought of

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all the things that are going on with

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our species and our history right now

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this is something really new in the

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human experience to to be leaving our

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planet and so i was really excited about

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and whenever somebody's taught me i've

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always sort of felt that well now i i

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have an obligation to try and share the

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privilege of things that i've learned

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with with other young people

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same as people did with me when i was

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as an astronaut i have spoken right

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across canada and up in the arctic and

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um trying to let people know the

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opportunities that are there

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this is something that canadians do

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there's canadian hardware on here the

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canadarm built this place it's just in

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the outside there's a canadian science

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experiment looking at how um

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tiny nanoparticles react doing

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fundamental research right over here

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behind me

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opportunity for canadians canadian

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universities canadian businesses and so

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i'm the lucky guy who gets to be here

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but i really consider it a vital part of

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my job not to keep this experience to

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myself but to use every means that i can

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think of to try and share it to try and

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let people see what we're doing up here

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and the fact that we are starting to

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leave our planet

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permanently for the first time in

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history it's a pretty interesting stage

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and now with the technology that's

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available to be able to immediately

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share a picture of mount etna or

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some random thought or some emotion

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that's going through

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it really even makes it more accessible

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and for me more rewarding to be able to

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not just keep it to myself but to be

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able to let

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and i guess we can add canadian music to

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that because of your song and and the

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bare naked ladies and the fact that

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students are going to be singing this

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song your song on music monday

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i think it's tremendous i i went through

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the

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had music teachers in elementary school

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and high school miss soren who taught me

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in in high school taught me how to read

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music and how to play musical

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instruments

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and

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when we looked at this coalition for

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music education right across canada they

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have a great program with canadian

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schools and um

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and we thought why not participate in

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that invited ed robertson who i'd known

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for years the two of us wrote a song

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together joined with the choir the the

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gleeks from wexford and and sang this

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song and it really came off nicely it's

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a song about

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exploration about starting to leave the

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earth about putting all that into

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personal perspective and what it means

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to us and ed and i really like the song

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that we wrote and it's going to be sung

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by schools i mean i invite all canadians

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to listen to this song it's you can see

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it through the canadian space agency

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website and through music mondays and

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coalition for music education

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um and it's going to be in schools

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across canada the first monday in may

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music mondays i think it's the 6th of

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may

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a song called somebody singing iss

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international space station and

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for me

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music is is fundamental to humanity they

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found

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musical instruments in when we lived in

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caves 40 000 years ago

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of the few artifacts the things that

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people made

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they made musical instruments back then

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before written history it it's an

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ancient necessity for humanity and to be

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able to uh have a guitar up here to be

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able to write and play music up here to

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be able to then share it and have

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canadians join in voice and song

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is just another wonderful way to try and

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help communicate not just the science

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which is important but also the art and

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the humanity of this experience and and

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i'm really hope lots of canadians will

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will have a chance to to join in in the

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music

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it's just it's really great to see you

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holding that guitar and with the

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weightlessness when you play that guitar

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well it sure does it's the guitar just

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kind of like this microphone the guitar

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just floats in front of you so you don't

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need a strap but it is a little weird to

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fret up the neck because

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because your arm doesn't weigh anything

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so so you kind of have to

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when you're playing up and down the neck

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you need to you need to really think

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about where your hands going but

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fortunately there's a canadian guitar on

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board made out in vancouver and that was

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just a lucky coincidence to have a

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canadian on board with a canadian guitar

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and i've in my spare time i've been

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playing lots of canadian folk songs stan

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rogers and gordon lightfoot and and m

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grinder and a bunch of music and and uh

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and having a chance to play some songs

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that i've been writing and record uh

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music it's just you know it's not the

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main purpose of what we're here for but

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uh having that as something to do in my

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spare time is is something i do on earth

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and it's a wonderful facet of the of

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actually living in space

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yeah i just love it and you know given

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the the the amount of space that you

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have for personality what other kinds of

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personal things did you bring with you i

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mean obviously you've got a guitar what

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are the kinds of things were important

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well i looked at this of course as as

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sort of a very significant event within

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my life within my family my extended

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family's life and so i invited of course

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each of my family members brothers

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sisters children my wife and and parents

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of course and ask them if they would

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like me to bring something up for them

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and we're very very space limited i came

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up and i helped in fact i was like the

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pilot of the soyuz the russian

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rocket ship spaceship that we flew up

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here so in fact everything i could bring

404
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had to fit in a package about as big as

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a one of those little loaves of bread

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and couldn't weigh more than a kilo and

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a half so just small things but almost

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everybody has some small little

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maybe something that's historic to them

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or personal to them or important and so

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i collected those from all my family

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little you know jewelry or or uh maybe

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something from a grandparent something

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that's been passed down through the

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generations little things like that my

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brother wrote a song you know that that

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i brought up the sheet music for that

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type of stuff and and now i have that up

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here

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and it's really nice actually to go

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through them one by one of course i want

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to photograph with them but to take them

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out and think about

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how this is the embodiment of a friend

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or or a history or a whole story each

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one of them and to float it weightless

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next to myself

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snap the camera with the world in the

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background

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not just knowing that this is an

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interesting photograph but this is an

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encapsulation of humanity and time

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looking at it putting it back in the

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package and taking on another one it's

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uh

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joining moment with everybody that's

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wow and you know you're so busy up there

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with the experiments that you've

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mentioned and such a full day you are

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about to take over command of the

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international space station are you

442
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still going to have time to do your

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tweets and your photographs and all of

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you just can't deny it and i mean i

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could sleep longer i guess but

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that would be a waste um

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i mean we have a very regimented life we

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in fact have a schedule on a computer

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that moves in one minute increment our

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life is scheduled to five-minute

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increments for the whole five months but

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there's a little bit of gray space at

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the start of the day and the end of the

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day and and there's also a block where

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you're supposed to be asleep and

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and yes i do i take over to command

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what is in effect the world spaceship uh

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here in a couple weeks

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uh which is just amazing uh for me to

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even contemplate that

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i can accept the reality of it but but

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in my heart it just still is uh is kind

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of uh daunting and

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and uh

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surreal but

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uh

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i'm definitely need to address that role

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uh of course my regular working day here

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but at the same time i'm not gonna spend

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my evenings and spare time you know

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watching movies or um or not being

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productive that's not what people put me

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here for it's definitely not what i want

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to do

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and i'm in such a rare position on

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behalf of so many canadians so many of

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my co-workers so many people that i want

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to live this experience just as fully as

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i can

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share it with earth real time but also

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absorb it as completely as i can so that

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i can

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reflect it back and reflect on it and

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and let people know what it means to all

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of us uh you know for the rest of my

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life so yeah i'll be busy but uh this is

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a good place to be busy

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i know there's going to be a lot of

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things you're going to want to do not

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the least which is hug your family when

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you get back but what would you look

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forward to being able to do once you're

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it's a very

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quiet

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austere environment here

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great people super competent undemanding

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self-starting group of six humans that

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i'm up here with from all around the

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world

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it's interesting we grew up speaking

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different languages very different

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cultures

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people from

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belarus and russia and different places

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in the united states and me from canada

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and yet

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this little microcosm we have a a

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wonderful time working here but it's

509
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also you know somewhat um monastic and

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i'm very much looking forward just to

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the contact of being back on earth the

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the noise and the tumult and the wind in

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your face and being able to give someone

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a hug and and

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just the regular messiness of life

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i'm looking forward to that i'm looking

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forward to

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of course we have all the compulsory

519
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things but

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to relaxing to getting back to uh

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cottage in canada and spending the time

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with my uh

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with my feet up trying to uh put all

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this together and figure out

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you know what it really means and

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and

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somehow fit it into the rest of my life

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and

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context of everything else that's going

530
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on so i think the debriefs the rush of

531
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humanity and then a chance to really

532
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reflect on it there's all the trivial

533
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stuff of you know food that i want to

534
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eat or

535
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something but but in truth it's the

536
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opportunity to to really make the most

537
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of it that i'm looking forward to when

538
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the pace slows again

539
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commander hadfield this has been such an

540
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incredible opportunity to speak with you

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you've been such an inspiration continue

542
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to be

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best of luck and uh safe travels for the

544
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thank you

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pleasure to talk to you thanks for

546
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having me on

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bye

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the station this is houston acr that

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thank you ctb studios station we are now