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yep

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thank

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bob bank and nasa chief astronaut bob

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the ticket to ride for chris cassidy and

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his crewmates behind you as the soyuz

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reaches the pad on this clear morning

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your thoughts uh on the upcoming launch

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and the complexity of this increment

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that lies ahead for chris and his crew

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well rob thanks it's uh like you

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mentioned the ticket to ride has a come

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for chris cassidy and the rest of his

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crew and now they're up for an exciting

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mission we've got the flight day one

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rendezvous the first time americans have

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participated in that rendezvous profile

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to the international space station with

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the crude flight we're really excited

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and i think all three crew members on

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this soyuz are up to the task and again

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really excited about having the

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opportunity to get to space station just

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so quickly

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much has been made about the single day

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launch to docking the six-hour

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rendezvous to the station what is

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different for the crew on board the

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soyuz what are they going to be involved

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in in this compressed period of time

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rod that's a good question there are a

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couple things and it starts actually

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before the crew launches they've been

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involved in a sleep shift so they're

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actually sleeping during daylight hours

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here in kazakhstan which is a new

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phenomenon for them to participate in

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and then once they get on board and are

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headed toward the space station they'll

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actually have much of the very same task

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that they had on their

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two-day rendezvous to the space station

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just compressed and so they'll have to

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do many of their tasks much more quickly

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than they had to before but we're

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expecting that to all go smoothly they

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will have an opportunity to take their

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suits off and get a little bit of a

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break before accomplishing the docking

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procedures but we're expecting a very

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similar activities to what we normally

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see during a docking profile just

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compressed

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and chris cassidy in particular you've

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had a chance to talk to him what is his

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state of readiness for

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about six months on order that will see

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the entire gamut visiting vehicles

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spacewalks the whole nine yards right

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for chris cassidy as a

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active duty navy uh seal he's always

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ready for anything and i can certainly

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say having seen him uh just earlier

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today he's ready and raring to go to

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step into all of his responsibilities

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both for uh this increment and the

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following increment where he's expected

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to conduct a couple of space walks uh to

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bring some repairs and other

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improvements to the space station so

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chris is ready and raring to go as any

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the soyuz is good for about

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four days of free flight and in the past

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we used two of those days on the way to

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the space station so in the event of an

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unplanned departure you know only have

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about two days of

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on orbit capability left by launching

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going straight to the docking in just

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six hours we'll preserve most of that on

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orbit uh uh time that on orbit

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capability so uh it's it's kind of like

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having a you know a runway behind you

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know runway ahead of you yet it's it's

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still available to use if you need it um

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it'll be busy for the crew that day

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launch day will be about a 24-hour day

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for them from the time they wake up

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go through the full final preparation

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suit up process strap in launch and then

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the six hours to the rendezvous docking

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and once they get to the station they're

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not quite done yet they need a quick

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safety brief there'll be a welcome a

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little bit of a welcome ceremony and

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they have to prepare the the soyuz to be

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on orbit uh in a storage mode for the

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next for the months ahead

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that'll be a long day but it'll be worth

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it

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mike chris cassidy eva's

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visiting vehicles

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the whole gamut of operations lies ahead

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for him what are your thoughts and his

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thoughts you've talked to him about what

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lies ahead oh you bet and it's uh it's

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an exciting time for him because chris

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has of course has experience as a space

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shuttle crew member on a short about a

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two week mission uh which is very

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compressed and you practice every single

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thing you're going to do is very tightly

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choreographed in this case you can't

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choreograph half a year worth of living

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and working up there and so we teach the

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basic fundamental skills

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and and so a lot of it you're kind of

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learning as you go you're learning from

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the senior guys that are up there uh

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chris hadfield tom marshburn and roman

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romanenko i've been up there for some

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months now so uh chris and his crew

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chris cassidy and his crew will be