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station this is houston are you ready

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houston this is the international space

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monrovia unified school district this is

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mission control houston please call the

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station this is shelley bonus here with

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monrovia high school we have you loud

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and clear greetings aboard the

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international space station from the

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crew of expedition 34 i'm kevin ford

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along with tom marshburn and chris

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hi i'm

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how do you digest your food without

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well i'm glad we can i'm not a doctor so

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i don't know exactly how it works but i

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know like when i'm in bed at night i can

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still digest my food my organs have a

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way of processing the food that works

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without the the help of gravity it is a

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little bit different it takes a little

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while for our bodies to get used to

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being up here

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my digestive system wasn't exactly uh

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normal after i got here for several

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weeks and it's always been a little bit

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different than earth but i feel good and

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i i can digest all my food we have to

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eat a lot more up here it seems to me

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than i do on earth so i think there are

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still some mysteries left and hopefully

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one of these days all the smart

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scientists will figure it all out maybe

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hello

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i'm jack

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is it always night and never day on on

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the iss also what language you use since

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well you know jack we go through 16

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sunrises and sunsets a day we're going

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17 500 miles an hour so that means

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time on the space station could be

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anytime we want to so between all the

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international partners we decided we're

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going to use greenwich mean time and the

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ground sets our schedule and they tell

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us when it's time to go to sleep and

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when to wake up so that's how we do it

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but we can't look outside and tell

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right now the uh

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the official language that we use on the

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space station is english but we love

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learning russian and speaking russian

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with our russian colleagues we work a

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lot of our procedures in russian and

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about a third of the time we're speaking

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russian and uh if there's an

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international partner up here from japan

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or from uh from any of the countries in

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europe

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then uh we'll hear that language as well

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it's a lot of fun learning new languages

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hi my name is angel what do you miss

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hi angel

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uh you know it's a really interesting

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place to work up here we are busy there

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are experiments the view out the window

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is unbelievable

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but it's not the same as as being on

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earth and i think for me i don't know

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what the the other crew members think

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but for me the thing i miss the most

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is just the

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the physical contact of living with

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family and friends on earth the the

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hugging and handshakes and

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and uh just being with people around

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that uh you know that you know and you

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love um this is a good hard-working crew

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we have lots of stuff to do but uh but

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everyone likes you know being welcomed

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and close to family and i think that's

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one of the things i'll really look

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forward to when i get home is just

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hugging my kids and my wife and and

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seeing people and and that physical

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contact of being around

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yourself just floating at home or

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imagine how what your pet would think if

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it found itself floating it's a little

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crazy uh the first time it happens to

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you and you're a little insecure

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want to have pressure on your feet or

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pressure on your backside but we never

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being in warm water in a pool or

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something if you close your eyes and

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pressure points on you anywhere

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used to it and you think about it it's

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really a lot of fun you can just pick a

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corner of the room and float up into

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that corner and enjoy floating back down

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games up here in zero g so there are a

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lot of advantages to being up here i

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made for gravity and i like running

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around and walking through parks and

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stuff like that so there are things i

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miss about earth i even miss gravity

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about earth but i do like floating

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around for uh for the time i've been up

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hi my name is jared and what do you

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well everybody's got their favorite

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thing to do during free time we don't

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us like to read but i one thing

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everybody loves to do and that's to look

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out the window we've got the most

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spectacular view i can imagine

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being 250 miles above the earth so we're

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always looking for interesting beautiful

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land forms we're

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looking for cities that we recognize

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even new cities we've never been to and

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we've learned an incredible amount about

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the geography of the earth and what it

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really looks like not just what it looks

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like on a map so probably the

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most popular thing to do in our spare

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hi my name is grant what inspired you to

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hey grant um

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you're going to grow up to be something

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guaranteed you're going to grow up to be

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and the question is you know how's that

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going to happen and who and what are you

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going to grow up to be

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and it's really up to you because you're

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the product of the the decisions that

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you make and for me

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when i was your age i was inspired by

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the very first people who left earth and

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walked in another heavenly body another

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planet the first two people who walked

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on the moon and their names were

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buzz aldrin and neil armstrong and to me

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i just thought you know it's it was up

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until yesterday it was impossible to

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walk on the moon and now people have

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done that and i thought who knows what's

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going to be possible for me but i'm

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going to start getting ready i'm going

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to start thinking about things that i

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can do then maybe someday i could do

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something like that and over the last 40

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years i turned myself into an astronaut

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like we all did here and give us a

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chance to do something like this and it

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was because of those people who inspired

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hi emily that that's a really great

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question staying in space for uh five or

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six months is very challenging uh we

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know before we volunteer of course that

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we're gonna be here this long and it's

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something uh it's something we just set

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thinking about coming i was thinking

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about how many weekends i had up here i

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have about 22 or 23 free weekends the

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rest of the time i'm really working hard

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and the days just are flying by and what

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didn't seem like very many to me so

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frankly the time has flown by for me and

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i didn't expect it to seem long but for

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those things where you you have to might

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like i might get an extension and spend

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maybe more months in space and when i

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have to face something like that i just

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realize that you know if i have to be

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someplace that i wouldn't want to be for

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a long time i love being here but if it

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through that each day or each hour is

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just it's that much shorter for me that

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i have remaining if i have to do a long

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so it's just kind of a mental game i

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play with myself and i i'm i'm used to

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handling those kinds of challenges those

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hi my name is stephen and why doesn't

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you know why it's because of a lot of

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very smart people that planned in

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lot of knowledge in history a space

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faring nation to be able to figure these

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oxygen in there we also have brought up

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liquid oxygen in tanks that's sitting on

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really precious liquid there we don't

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lot stored up here if we need it

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oxygen we breathe in and then breathe

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that's all grabbed by the system of the

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space station and they take those oxygen

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those systems do and uh put it back into

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that oxygen so we use up just a little

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a lot of the oxygen as well it's a

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brilliant engineering system and it's

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hi i'm gregory what have you discovered

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flight and

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on the previous two flights i tried to

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tell people afterwards just how

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beautiful it is what an amazing

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experience a new experience it is

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but on this flight because of of new

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technology that nasa has put up here

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we can send

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pictures and sounds and things from the

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space station almost right away to the

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earth so that people can really start to

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this new thing that people are doing and

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different ways the social media and like

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talking to you today

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amount of reaction to that the hundreds

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of thousands of people all around the

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world that are directly following what

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we're doing here really interested in

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what we're doing and actually making it

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part of their lives so i think the thing

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that surprised me the most and that i

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really like is the huge um

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support and interest

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in this new human exploration of space

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hi my name is phoebe and what is the

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best part about being in a low gravity

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well uh the floating is really really

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fun like we said before uh your food

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floats your microphone floats

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but uh what the coolest thing i think is

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are the experiments that we can do in

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this really it's it's all it's for all

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practical purposes zero gravity and we

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can do things with fluids we can watch a

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glob of water react in front of us so

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where we can watch it inside

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inside a very expensive and intricate

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chamber to study fluid flow dynamics

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things are burning in an environment

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where the gravity doesn't force air flow

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phenomenon called convection when things

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burn it pulls air in from one side and

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without feeding it air it burns

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differently and we have combustion racks

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up here and fluids racks and we can

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study the way

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we behave or we we age and we change in

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the microgravity environment and the way

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plants and animals do also so there's

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just many things you can study without

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gravity that can tell us a lot about the

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intricate details of the way things work

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on earth we can either take them back to

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earth or we can use them as

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knowledge learned for future space

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flights so that's really the coolest

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hi my name is even what do you do in

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hi eve we've got that all planned out

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right now

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and what we can do is

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uh the main thing we could do is use our

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soyuz our spaceship that brought us up

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here

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we always have that sitting on the

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outside doc

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ready to bring his home if we need it in

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case of an emergency but first we take a

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lot of steps we've trained quite a bit

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with our russian colleagues

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with all of our crewmates to make sure

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that we know how to get oxygen if we

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need it to to protect the space station

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if we need to in case we have an

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emergency on board

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so if none of that works and there's a

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lot that we can do to help the save the

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space station and keep ourselves safe

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but if none of that works we can go

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straight to our soyuz and get home if we

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hi my name is carolina and what is the

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carolina

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i think the most important job in the

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space station is always the one you're

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doing right now

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and because

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you can mess everything up with one

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little mistake and even something you

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don't think is important let's say

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you're just taking a picture at the

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window with your camera and you uh you

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inadvertently bump the window with your

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camera and put a big scratch in the

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window every astronaut every picture

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taken from that moment on is going to

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have to live with that scratch or even

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if you're just going to the bathroom and

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if you do something wrong we have a

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careful sequence to make our space

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toilet work if you mess something up

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there and you mess up the toilet on the

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space station it seems like nothing

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important but boy it has a real impact

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on life on station and that's one of the

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things you have to constantly remind

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yourself as an astronaut is there's

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nothing more important than the thing

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hi my name is evan and what does it feel

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uh that is like one of my favorite

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things i've ever done in my life as

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liftoff uh i was a pilot before i became

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an astronaut and i loved flying fast

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things i got to fly fighter aircraft and

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the acceleration you get

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from the after burners and the engines

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is very similar to the feeling you get

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on liftoff we climb into the rocket and

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in the case of both the space shuttle

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and the soyuz rocket that i flew up here

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in you you lie on your back it's like

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lying on the floor maybe with your feet

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up on a stool or something

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and um you're just waiting and when the

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rocket finally lights it starts to push

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you away it's like being in a car that's

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accelerating it's pushing you back

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backwards and you feel vibrations you

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feel the rocket moving a little bit left

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and right and a little bit up and down

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and as you get lighter and lighter

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because the fuel is being used up you

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get more and more and more pushing until

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your weight you feel like you weigh

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three times what you weigh on earth's

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surface and then sometimes you get

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staging and a new rocket starts and then

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you'll the g's will let up a little bit

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you'll feel heavy but not as heavy and

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then they build up up again and then

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when you finally get into space and the

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rocket shuts down you're instantly in in

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zero gravity and you're floating so it's

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a very dynamic part of the flight it's a

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very fun part of the flight it's very

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intense and uh we we love doing it it's

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an adrenaline rush um and i'd love to do

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it more but uh but it's a very expensive

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and special thing to get to do so uh

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that's that's what it's like and i hope

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hi my name is nicholas what is the

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process like to go through the

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well uh kevin described what it feels

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like

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uh you know it all starts sitting on the

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launch pad after at least two and a half

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years of training just for that flight

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so that's the first step in the process

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but once the rocket brings you up one

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thing you can feel going through the

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atmosphere that's that's very

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interesting is the computer in the

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rocket is constantly recalculating uh

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the orbit that you've got to

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to get to the target that you're heading

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for and you can feel that you can feel

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the engine moving a little bit under the

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direction of the computer and it's

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almost like a speedboat if you've ever

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been in in a boat on a lake going over

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wakes just bouncing on top of the waves

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so you can feel kind of a bounce a

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rhythmic bounce as the rockets figuring

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out where to put you in space

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you can feel a little bit of the

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turbulence of the air and then as soon

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as you get out of the atmosphere the

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push from behind from the acceleration

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of the rocket is nice and smooth and as

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kevin mentioned it's just a huge

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pressure kind of a gorilla on your chest

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you you're taking your breaths and in

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sips at that point um it's just to push

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all the way up until the main engine cut

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my name is farah how do you wash your

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hi farah

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uh

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well how do you wash your clothes on

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earth

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normally you you put them in a washing

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machine and then a lot of water comes in

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all the soap gets in mixes it all up

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that soapy water goes somewhere and then

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more clean water comes in rinses them

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that goes somewhere and then more clean

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water comes in for a final rinse it

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takes a lot of water to wash clothes

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and

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soapy dirty used water you need a great

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big processing plant well we could do

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that on the space station we could

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figure out a space washing machine but

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it's just not efficient the weight and

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the cost and the complexity of it so we

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found it's actually just simpler just to

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not wash our clothes

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and in fact we just wear our clothes

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until they get dirty and then we throw

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them away it is not as gross as it

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sounds because number one we never sit

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down or lie down in our clothes so you

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never lie on your clothes your clothes

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just sort of float on you so they don't

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get rubbed against your body and get

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dirty nearly as quickly also the space

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station's a big clean place so you

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hardly ever get dirt or grease or

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anything on your clothes

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and so it's really not too bad um and

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you we have a supply of new clothes

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and it's cheaper and easier that way

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than it is to try and figure out a way

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to properly wash them so if you're an

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astronaut you just throw your dirty

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hi my name is cameron

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okay i think i think yeah the who who

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flies the spaceship when

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we're asleep

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the ground control

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is always watching over our spaceship in

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fact the the international space station

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is really operated by a team on the

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ground and controlled through satellite

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there are onboard computers that also

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monitor it in case ground can't talk to

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the space station it has it has kind of

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automatic mode that it's flying in it

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knows what it's supposed to be doing in

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the computers uh continue to fly it

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there are computers in the russian

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segment watching the computers in the

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u.s segment and they they agree on what

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should be done and that's the way it's

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controlled so if anything needs to

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change like we need to turn to a

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different attitude maybe for a

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rendezvous or docking or something then

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the ground control will put that in and

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it flies itself so normally we don't on

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board actually control it it's all

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controlled by the fantastic team on the

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ground who's down there supporting us

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all the time 24 hours a day seven days a

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station this is houston acr thank you

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station copies we had a

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there you go thank you monrovia high

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school unified school district station