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station this is houston are you ready

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houston station expedition 34 crews

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ready for the event

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cnn this is mission control houston

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please call station for a voice check

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hey station this is brooke baldwin with

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brooke we have you clear aboard the

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international space station welcome

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aboard

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thank you guys let's rock and roll good

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is it good is it good morning is it good

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afternoon good night what is it for you

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it's about two o'clock in the afternoon

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so it's a good afternoon for us we've

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already put in about a half a day's work

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on board and after the event we got a

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little bit more to go so it's middle of

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kevin let me begin with you as a station

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commander just just brief us earthlings

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here as far as what your mission is up

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well i've been out here about 140 days

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and the real mission out here is to do

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science really for the benefit of the

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earth

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also we do some test bed stuff

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engineering

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applications if you will for space

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flight and

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there are about 150 experiments going on

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at any one time literally hundreds and

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hundreds in the past and and to come a

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lot of scientists on earth

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think of things that they could do in

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zero g things like the way uh

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metals cure for example

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and the way uh fluids uh react in space

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can tell us a lot about some of the

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unknowns that we have on earth

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also we can do science and medical

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science uh studies on osteoporosis those

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kinds of things there are scientists on

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the planet who have so many different

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kinds of ideas about what to do on the

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we we just get to come up here and

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execute for them and it's just a

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pleasure to be up here since i've been

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up here i've just been just in awe of

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the experiments the quality of the

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experiments and what we've seen up here

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that has applications back on earth

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i have to tell you as a huge space geek

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i am in awe of all three of you and tom

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i cannot help but notice this camera

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floating in front of you which makes me

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just kind of wonder do you ever get used

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to this feeling of floating of zero

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you get better at being able to do

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useful work in zero gravity but it's

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always fun it's always a complete

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delight it's like a dream

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uh being able to fly from place to place

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and uh your your feet kind of become

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like your hands

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and that's why we don't have shoes on

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we're always just wearing socks so we

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can stabilize ourselves but it's always

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an enormous amount of fun

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chris my question to you now because

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you're really making waves with all your

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tweets your pictures all around earth

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your sandwich making uh the peanut

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butter the honey i understand you've

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been rocking out with the chieftains and

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the bare naked ladies with your guitar

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what do you make of just the response

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here on earth just from your twitter

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uh brooke i i think it's marvelous when

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i first flew in space

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gosh 17 years ago

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i've been trying ever since to let

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people know what a magnificent human

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experience this is it's new for our

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species to be able to see our earth in

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all of its

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just beautiful glory in one place in one

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glance in in 90 minutes to go around the

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whole thing to try and describe that i

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do my best but uh now with the

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technology that nasa has on board and

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with technology like twitter when over

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half a million followers today in fact

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that are directly following what we're

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doing on board here we can show people

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uh richness that we are all privy to

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that we all live with but you just don't

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get to see any other way and so i think

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the response reflects that

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we are doing science on the space

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station we're learning how to leave

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earth permanently but at the same time

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it teaches us a tremendous amount about

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our planet and our place in it and i

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think the followership on the twitter

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feed and everything else really reflects

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chris do you have a favorite photo a

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favorite vista something you've seen

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uh when we're in the cupola which is our

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huge bulging bay window that faces the

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there but often there are two of us in

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there waiting for something to happen

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waiting to come up on a continent or

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even maybe what i think is the most

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special waiting for a sunrise or a

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sunset because that transition as we

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race around the earth and come into

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sight of the sun or the sun comes into

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the atmosphere blossoms so quickly with

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all the colors just a rainbow exploding

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around the world and and then suddenly

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the world is is bathed in the light of

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the sun because of our our tremendous

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speed and it's

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it's it's a repeating miracle it's just

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beautiful to see uh to be to be

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privileged to be able to up here and see

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it we all just are reverent about it

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when you see it it takes your breath

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away every time it's and it's a way to

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see the world that i wish everyone could

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see in one quick glimpse

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and we're doing our best to let people

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see it that way

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i know this is your job this is your

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career but i imagine just hearing the

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passion in all three of your voices it

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sounds like a pinch me moment for all

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three of you and and i know you're all

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very involved in these tweet ups talking

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to students from the iss here's my

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question because i covered the atlantis

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lodge we now know that the space shuttle

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program is shuttered how do you maintain

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that excitement in young people when

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someone says to and this is to any of

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you i want to be an astronaut there are

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no shuttles to get you there so what's

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well i'll start i i flew my last flight

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on discovery uh as a shuttle pilot the

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shuttle program was fantastic for 30

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years this the space shuttle built the

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space station that wouldn't be here

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lot of elements i like the canadarm2 and

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and so forth as well and all the

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contributions of our partners

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it's just it's just a magnificent

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magnificent step that we're taking here

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this is where we are learning to live

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and fly into space deeper

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there will be more to come there are

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we're looking at what the next step is

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and uh the opportunities are still there

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this is really this really is just the

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first baby step into the universe

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what we're doing here as this this uh

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this group of countries that came

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station a reality the most affluent

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countries on the planet have put

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go deeper into space and the the new

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early generation spacecraft and and some

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things are really going to happen that

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are even much cooler the technology

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in your everyday life will make space

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me even uh move along at a more rapid

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pace i think in the future so uh i'm i'm

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really excited to see what we're going

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to have 15 20 years from now i think we

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will be moving out into the solar system

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with humans and way out and beyond with

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asteroids because they've been making a

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lot of news down here where we are uh

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that there was uh the quick buzz past

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earth a couple of weeks ago we saw what

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with the meteorite over russia and then

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just this week and another asteroid

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well the asteroids are out there and

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looking for them you know the chances

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are are very very small that anything

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would happen anytime soon however the

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chance is always out there asteroids are

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worth worth looking at not only where

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they are and where they're headed but

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they may very well be very rich in

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minerals and other materials that would

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be very useful to us so there's a lot of

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to go out to them

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the technology required to go to one and

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to stay in sort of an orbit around one

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and to do a space walk so you could

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that's all technology that we need to

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develop and whenever we try something

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all of the the benefits that technical

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benefits that come from that benefits

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everyone really so it's a wonderful

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while i still have you all with about 60

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seconds remaining i just want to thank

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you profusely for talking to me and and

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i hear you all are capable of doing some

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sort of space flip so here's my favor

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i'd love to use this in my show could

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you guys say something like hello from

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the international space station you know

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you're watching cnn and then

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hello from the international space

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woohoo

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thank you guys so much i i would i would

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totally flip for you if i if i possibly

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could

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enjoy it thank you keep us posted we're

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hanging on your every tweet and your

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photo we are living vicariously through