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station this is houston are you ready

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houston station yes we are all set

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wgme tv this is mission control houston

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please call station for voice check

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interview with maine astronaut chris

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cassidy who arrived on the job just a

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few days ago so here we go hello chris

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how are things looking from space today

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well hello kim great to hear from you

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outstanding it's such a great time uh

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here on space that i'm having so much

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fun just floating around and taking in

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the whole experience and trying to find

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turn this place into my home

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awesome chris it is so great to see you

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and hear you as well now obviously

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you're not floating right now can you

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tell us are you tethered to something

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oh no i'm floating there's a microphone

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no hands

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that is awesome i'm amazing i'm amazed

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that you can just look so stable

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all right let's talk a little bit about

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your journey there you were on what what

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they're calling a fast track voyage just

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incredible something that's been taking

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up to 45 days you made it in under six

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hours that is a new record what was that

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well

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it was it was a real privilege and an

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honor to be part of the crew that that

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had the opportunity to do that um but to

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be perfectly honest the the events that

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we did inside the cockpit are all the

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same that we normally would do on a

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rendezvous just squish together with

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less of a break in between

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the real challenge for this type of

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rendezvous is on the planners beforehand

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making sure that the space station is in

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exactly the right position really tight

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tolerance is on where the space station

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has to be

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and the the folks in moscow who

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calculated the trajectory for the soyuz

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they had the real burden on on making

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sure all of those numbers and really

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really finite calculations were perfect

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and we were just had to execute their

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plan

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so timing was everything now what were

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some of the advantages of being able to

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get there so quickly i'm sure it there

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are some advantages for you getting

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adjusted but also you're able to carry

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certain items that you're going to be

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using for research and experiment

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um experiment with so that was helpful

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yeah exactly exactly for for us as as

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individual people the the space

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adaptation process inside the soyuz it

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can be a little uncomfortable on a

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two-day rendezvous because it because it

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does sort of a a slow spinning motion to

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for its uh orientation to the sun

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and that can be a little disorienting if

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you hurry up and get to the space

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station you can take care of all the

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adaptation right here on the space

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station where it's a little bit larger

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of a volume and a little more stable and

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the process is somewhat

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easier

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and just like you mentioned on a short

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trip like that we're able to carry some

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experiments that might not

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be able to survive the two days if

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depending on what type of experiments it

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is so just for those exact reasons that

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you mentioned it's it's a very helpful

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chris not your first time in space you

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were born endeavor in 2009 now you're

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back on the international space station

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which was under construction then how

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you know it's fantastic it's it's a much

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larger uh facility than when i was here

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before it was big when i was here i

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thought but we've there since then

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they've added another node which is a

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section of the space station from which

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we can add more modules

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much like tinker toys when we were kids

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you can the nodes are the brown parts

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that you can connect various segments to

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and a node 3 which also includes a

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fantastic place to look down at the

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earth called the cupola right at the

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bottom of the space station with

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majestic views of the earth below us

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that just is breathtaking to be there

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and that was not here when i was there

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that sounds amazing speaking of tinker

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toys and kids you got a lot of people in

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york maine who are watching your journey

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with a ton of pride as are all of us in

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maine

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chris tell us a little bit or would you

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like to give a shout out to your

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well i'm just really really honored to

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represent the state of maine and in

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particular the town of york

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where i grew up as a kid playing

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basketball on short sands beach there

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and mowing lawns in the summertime just

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enjoying life as a young

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boy in southern maine just like many

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kids in school in that area right now

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and never then did i imagine that i

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would be up here on the space station

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talking to a portland tv station oh my

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goodness that was the farthest from my

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mind that i could ever imagine but i'm

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so honored to have the opportunity to do

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this and to

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to be in a position that

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folks in maine and folks in new york are

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excited about and just really really

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special to me

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chris it's thank you and we're proud of

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you as well uh tell us a little bit if

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you were able to look out the window

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well let's see we have a map program on

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the computer and i can see we just just

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a little bit ago across the equator on a

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southern track towards kind of

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paralleling the western coast of south

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america so if i looked out right now i

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would see

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very wide space of blue ocean in in the

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uh the southern southern pacific ocean

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not too long we'll be crossing the tip

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of south america

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and uh and in about another i don't know

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45 minutes to an hour we'll be cruising

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up through africa so it's really kind of

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majestic and breathtaking how fast we

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it's pretty remarkable experience not

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many people are going to get to do what

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you do but still that doesn't mean

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people shouldn't strive and try to

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achieve their goals you are a remarkable

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example of that and i know it's

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something you don't take for granted

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yeah you're absolutely right kim um i've

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been fortunate to have great mentors and

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be at the right place at the right time

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but also accompanied with that was a

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little bit of hard work along the way

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and knowing when to buckle down and uh

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and take studies seriously or take your

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work seriously and that's served me well

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but really it's the mentorship and the

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leadership that i've had in various

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aspects of my life from other people

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that have helped me get to where they

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where i am so that's something that i

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try to provide to others now is that

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same opportunities that were afforded to

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well chris thank you so much for talking

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to us today live from the international

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space station we'll follow the progress

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and the mission itself and hopefully

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when you look down at maine it won't be

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as white as it was because we melted a

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lot of snow this weekend so have a great

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thanks very much kim take care

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the station this is houston acr that

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concludes the event thank you

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and thank you wgme tv station please