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well welcome to mission control in

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houston my name is pat ryan i'm the

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public affairs officer on the orbit 2

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shift here in mission control today and

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we just finished up our daily update of

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the news onboard the international space

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station and looking forward to talking

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to you about the station and about space

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exploration uh brought along somebody

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who knows all of that stuff

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even better than i do uh eric bowe is an

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astronaut he's been an astronaut since

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uh 2000 he's flown to the international

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space station twice as the pilot on

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space shuttle endeavour in 2008 and on

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the very final flight of space shuttle

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discovery in 2011.

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but perhaps more important eric is tell

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us how where you came from to get here

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well i grew up in atlanta georgia i was

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lived on the northeast side of town went

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to evansdale elementary school and i

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graduated from henderson high school

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which is now a middle school in atlanta

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area so you are familiar with the area

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the folks here from ball ground are are

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absolutely very very familiar with the

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atlanta area i was looking at ball

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ground where these guys are

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location-wise my father actually is in

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canton which is pretty close to where

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they're at

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tell us real quickly how did you become

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interested in being an astronaut how did

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you what did you have to do to get here

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well i've always been interested in

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flying it's just been one of my passions

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and so i went into the air force and

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became an air force pilot it was always

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kind of a far off dream i remember my

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parents coming when when the moon

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landings happened and neil armstrong was

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walking on the moon calling me in and

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saying hey watch this on tv that's kind

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of my first recollection of television i

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remember seeing the landing and i think

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that's kind of was always kind of on my

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mind to maybe get a chance to do that in

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the future and as my career went along i

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became a fighter pilot and a test pilot

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and i had the qualifications to be an

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astronaut i went ahead and applied and

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that's kind of the course it took cool

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well let's find out what the what the

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kids in the atlanta area are interested

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in we're ready to take your questions

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what kind of training do you do to

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become an astronaut and how many years

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do you have to train to be an astronaut

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that's a great question well the

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training involved usually when you come

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in as an astronaut one of the first

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things you do is you go through

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astronaut candidate training so that's

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usually in the range of a year and a

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half to two and a half years depending

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on how that works out so you do all

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kinds of generic training

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things like working the robotic arm you

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learn how to fly we have t-38s that we

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use for training to get crew members

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used to what it's going to be like in a

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spaceship because of communications and

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working those things we also have

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a neutral buoyancy laboratory nbl we'll

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talk about that probably a little bit

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later where we practice doing space

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walks as well and we have a lot of other

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training uh language training now with

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the the international space station

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russians one of those big things that

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we're learning on the station so that

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training and then then as you you uh

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pick up jobs in the astronaut office as

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you wait to be assigned for your flight

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then that training right now for the

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international space station is on the

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order of about two to two and a half

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years for your training that's involved

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when i was a space shuttle pilot uh my

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training for their space shuttle mission

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was about a year to a year and a half so

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it kind of depends on what what you're

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going for you know space station

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missions about six months is how long it

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lasts it just takes a little bit longer

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between different countries

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did i answer

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was it like training in water and how

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does it relate to being in space

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buoyancy laboratory is that that's a

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bunch of absolutely it's it's one of the

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biggest pools in the world and it's

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gigantic if you ever get a chance to

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come out here to johnson space center

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you should you can take a tour of it and

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actually see it it's really gigantic and

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even though it's a really big pool we

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can't fit the international stage

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station fully in there so we actually

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have to put the mock-ups in different

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locations but the thing the pool allows

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practice three-dimensionally like we're

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going to be in space whereas if it was

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some other way you obviously can't float

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is obviously drag you know you move your

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hands in front of you and it slows you

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down so in space these are things that

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you have to compensate for and most crew

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members when they go out the first first

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time they go outside in space they have

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to really concentrate to look at those

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differences and make a difference but we

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found the pool is the best way to

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space that we can do on the ground with

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started training with it

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i i that's a great question i did like

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to do scuba dive i was uh stationed in

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the air force uh on my first assignment

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as an operational uh pilot and i was in

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the philippines and that's where

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diving was excellent so beautiful

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beautiful place to learn how to scuba

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dive and i've continued scuba diving

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throughout my life but we also scuba

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dive not only we're a space heat in the

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pool but we also practice in the pool uh

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for our space blocks by

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looking around at the mock-ups and scuba

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diving gear so i i really enjoy scuba

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diving and enjoy both in our nbl and

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that there are other people who are

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doing who are helping train astronauts

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who scuba dive uh i had never been a

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diver before but shortly after i came to

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work here i got trained in scuba diving

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so i could go in that pool with a camera

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to shoot video of the astronauts while

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they were training and it's a remarkable

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thing to be floating around in there for

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a camera that's trailing this long cord

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and swimming around following them as

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they uh as they train for all the tasks

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a real interesting perspective of of how

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that goes and you also learn a lot about

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what they're actually doing on the eva

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have two people but we have a whole team

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that's supporting that

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training that we're doing in the nbl and

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said photographers that are working with

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looking at some technical details so we

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i start trying can be tiring you know

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it's really a lot of fun

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it's a lot of hard work there are times

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when it you know goes quickly when

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you're working really hard and there's

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other times when you just got to do some

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brute force of looking at things and

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really studying things but the pool that

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you're fighting against the suit

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have a pressure differential which makes

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moving your arms back and forth and so

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that really makes it and doing things

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squeezing with your hands can be very

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space or or you're in the pool you end

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the day and you're fairly tired and

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other things like that can be fairly

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rigorous in our training

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a fairly heavy suit that you got to move

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weightlessness or we call it

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microgravity to be very specific but

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essentially you're weightless and so

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in in the suit itself so you don't

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really feel the weight and it's actually

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have some weight to it and you have to

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work around them they have some

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limitations that affect you but that's

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why we do the training that we do and

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that's you said you have to work against

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the suit is because of it's it's

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pressurized on the inside if you go out

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the suit in order to provide you with an

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environment that you can live in and

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it's that pressure that makes it hard to

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that that makes it tough to work against

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the pressure on the inside of the suit

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astronaut suit and what arts features

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that's the uh the suit is actually

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the suit we've we've had you know

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several iterations of suits along the

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way but the big picture for the the

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space fleet that we have the one that we

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take outside to do our space walks with

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is there's a it's made out of layers you

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start with a layer that basically

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is a bladder basically keeps that

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pressure that we've been talking about

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keeps the air in that's obviously one of

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the most important things because you

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can't continue to live if you don't have

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a place to to breathe and so that's the

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bigger and then all the other layers are

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basically to support that layer so then

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we have a layer that basically is a

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protective layer so that if you bump

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into something you don't accidentally

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cut that bladder and then on top of that

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we have

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kind of a mesh

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weaving that goes on top again that

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helps protect and then there's a thermal

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layer that protects against the sun and

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then on our gloves where we grab things

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we actually take

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we'll put an additional like a rubber

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layer that helps us so when we're

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touching things that layer can help

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prevent us from getting cut cuts in our

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gloves so the suit is a very complicated

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then obviously it's almost like a

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portable spaceship because you have your

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own oxygen and breathing you're

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basically self-sustaining you have a

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little power unit like a battery so you

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can monitor your systems that's going on

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and you have to you have water to cool

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the suit while you're outside so there's

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a lot of different things that go on as

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a space suit

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and it's essentially like a little

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spaceship that you're taking outside i

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think it's also important to point out

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that you don't go to space and wear

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those spacesuits all the time most of

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the time you're dressed like this

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absolutely usually we're wearing a shirt

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just like this on the inside and it's

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just when you're going to go do a

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spacewalk that you actually put on that

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full suit and typically when you're

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riding up and down you put a space suit

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on but then once you're in orbit a lot

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of times you take the space suit off do

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some work and then you put the suit on

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so most of the time you're not wearing a

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super but there are times when when

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you're having to do the space workers or

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special times that you put the suit on

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what is it like to live in

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what is it like living in space and how

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long do you usually stay up there

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well it's great living in space it's one

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of the coolest things you know the

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uh living in space

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there are so many things to see

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once

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usually you're busy with a lot of work

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that's going on but when you have some

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free time the thing that you go out and

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do is you look at the earth and you're

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amazed at how it is but there's all

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kinds of things you have to think about

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spaces how to eat how to sleep all the

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basics

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i think there's

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there are a lot of different things that

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that are involved in it but it's it uh

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for my flights i went up for about

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two weeks almost 16 days some of the

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longer space shuttle missions where we

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went up to the space station and stayed

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there and we met crew members like we

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have crew members on board now we have

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six crew members on the space station

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right now and they're up there for

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anywhere from five to six months is the

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typical mission while they're on board

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so it's uh you really have to kind of

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calibrate yourself to how long it's

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going to be when you're on any shorter

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missions they're a lot more fast paced

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but on the longer missions it's still a

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high pace but you do it over a longer

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period of time and in fact we already

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have a crew that's been assigned that is

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in training right now for a mission that

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will last a full year in space uh one

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nasa astronaut scott kelly and russian

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cosmonaut mikhail konienko uh are about

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to officially get started in their

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training they're gonna launch and

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they're gonna be up in space for a full

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year uh longer missions like that that

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that we're doing in order to better find

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out how people can spend a long time in

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space because it's going to take a long

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time in space to go do the future

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explorations that we want to do to uh to

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go to mars or to go to asteroids it'll

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take a lot longer than just six months

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and in the recent times this is some of

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the big things we've been learning about

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in space on the space station is

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actually doing these six-month missions

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we've kind of we're doing a build of

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approach as we get there and so these

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things we're learning about a lot of

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things like bone loss how to keep your

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muscles obviously when you're in space

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you're not using your muscles the same

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way on the ground just standing up on

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earth as

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a workout when you're in space you don't

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have that effect so we have other ways

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to do that with the workout equipment

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and that we have a

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bicycle that we can work on on treadmill

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as well

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what is it like sleeping in space

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well sleeping in space can be can can be

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interesting the first time obviously

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you're just floating in space so you

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usually uh in on the space shuttle we

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actually took out sleeping bags so it

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was kind of like being on a camping trip

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where you went out and put your sleeping

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bag up for the day on space station

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right now they actually have little

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sleeping quarters that they go into so

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either either way you have a place that

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kind of keeps you in place and that's

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just so you're not floating around

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bumping into things that probably wake

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you up

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uh one of the things i always thought

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was kind of interesting about space is

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it's it could be

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they give you a pillow but obviously in

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space your head would be like this off

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the pillow and that wouldn't work so

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well so nasa gives you some nasa issued

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velcro to stick around your head and

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attach yourself to the pillow so it's

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kind of a fun way to make sure that you

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and actually it's very normal you

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actually

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feels like you're sleeping at home after

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a while but you do have some interesting

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dreams while you're floating around and

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it's a lot of people like to curl up

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with their knees kind of get in that

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fetal position and again we have some

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velcro to get your knees in a position

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to kind of hold them there because if

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not they would just extend themselves

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out and wouldn't work the way you wanted

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to but

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like anything you learn how to adjust to

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these changes and it's actually fairly

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easy to sleep in in space you have to

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worry about a soft soft bed like you do

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on the ground okay

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how do people in the international space

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station get food and water from earth if

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they run out

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well how do you get food and well the

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big thing we were just talking we have a

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ship that's uh

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planning to dock to come up the space

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station we have we have these unmanned

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ships that come up the russians have

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some we have some our international

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partners in the united states as well

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has one and we're actually as a new

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commercial company the orbital sciences

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is looking at launching in their vehicle

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uh coming up this summer so we have

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different ways of getting food and water

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up to the space station the big thing is

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as planning we don't want to get to that

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point where we run out of food and water

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on the space station another interesting

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fact is on space station a lot of our

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water actually gets recycled we have a

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reclamation system on board

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90 of the water that we have that's

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getting used

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is getting reprocessed and redone and

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it's really important because weight is

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a fairly expensive thing to get up and

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down and the average human needs about

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two liters of water a day so you start

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adding that up that adds up to be a lot

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of weight of water and so by reusing it

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and these are some of the things that

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we're learning in space that we can use

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on the ground because there's obviously

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places on earth where water is limited

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and as eric said there's a because the

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space station is run by a partnership of

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different nations

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different countries are are providing

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those supplies the the russian partners

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launch one kind of cargo ship the

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european space agency has one the japan

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aerospace exploration agency has yet

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another kind of cargo ship and nasa has

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provided the seed money for a couple of

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private companies in america that have

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been developing cargo ships one of them

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is already flying and the second one is

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about ready for its first test flight

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did you see the great wall of china

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while you were traveling through space

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i actually didn't see the great wall of

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china the the timing for lighting didn't

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work out that way but there have been

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people that have seen the great wall of

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china and actually with a camera you can

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see a lot of things on earth that you

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know that humans are there we're flying

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fairly low over the planet we're at at

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the range of about uh

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200 to 300 mile

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uh up in space depending on where you

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are in your orbit uh distance so you're

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actually fairly low going across the

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planet and you can see the great wall of

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china from

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space but there are a lot of things that

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you can see that are that are man-made

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from

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why you're going around the planet in

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orbit but the great wall of china is a

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pretty amazing one it's it's on my list

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so i get the chance to see it one when i

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did you see day and night when you

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you see day and night actually

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a lot while you're up in space when

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you're going around the planet you're

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going about 17 500 miles per hour in

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orbit what that means is that you go

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around the planet 16 times a day and 16

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times a day means you see 16 sunrises

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and sunsets every day so the sun and the

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sun comes up 16 times as fast and goes

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down 16 times as fast so when you see it

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it's up pretty quick and down pretty

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quick and one of the interesting things

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and of course the weather is below us so

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there's never anything in the way so

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when the sun comes up it's very bright

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when it goes down it's very dark and and

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so a lot of the effects that you see on

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earth that are caused by the atmosphere

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you don't see those up in space but it's

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actually there are some unique views

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seeing it from space as well

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and the sun on spacewalks like we were

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talking about earlier you really have to

546
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take into account where the sun is

547
00:17:26,710 --> 00:17:25,360
because it can actually if you're

548
00:17:27,990 --> 00:17:26,720
looking right into it as you're working

549
00:17:29,430 --> 00:17:28,000
on something that can really blind what

550
00:17:30,950 --> 00:17:29,440
you're doing or when the sun goes down

551
00:17:32,070 --> 00:17:30,960
if you don't have your lights on you

552
00:17:33,270 --> 00:17:32,080
won't be able to see the tasks that

553
00:17:34,789 --> 00:17:33,280
you're working on so keeping track of

554
00:17:36,870 --> 00:17:34,799
where the sun is is actually a fairly

555
00:17:38,630 --> 00:17:36,880
important thing but it also affects how

556
00:17:39,990 --> 00:17:38,640
you sleep because obviously a lot of

557
00:17:41,190 --> 00:17:40,000
people use the sun on the ground to kind

558
00:17:43,029 --> 00:17:41,200
of tell what time it is so you kind of

559
00:17:44,390 --> 00:17:43,039
have to get used to a new clock because

560
00:17:46,470 --> 00:17:44,400
you look at the sun a little differently

561
00:17:50,230 --> 00:17:46,480
while you're up in orbit

562
00:17:56,470 --> 00:17:54,070
does your oxygen level drop in space

563
00:17:58,630 --> 00:17:56,480
your oxygen level actually it's all

564
00:17:59,750 --> 00:17:58,640
maintained we have systems on board that

565
00:18:01,909 --> 00:17:59,760
maintain it we have a whole mission

566
00:18:03,430 --> 00:18:01,919
control room here here in houston and

567
00:18:05,270 --> 00:18:03,440
also there's one in russia as well that

568
00:18:06,230 --> 00:18:05,280
are looking at these

569
00:18:08,150 --> 00:18:06,240
to make sure that we have the right

570
00:18:09,909 --> 00:18:08,160
mixture of gases in there so we have to

571
00:18:11,510 --> 00:18:09,919
keep track of that as as part of things

572
00:18:13,510 --> 00:18:11,520
so as you breathe it obviously it drops

573
00:18:15,350 --> 00:18:13,520
down but we have a tank

574
00:18:17,110 --> 00:18:15,360
outside that actually helps

575
00:18:19,270 --> 00:18:17,120
put put more oxygen in the air we have

576
00:18:21,669 --> 00:18:19,280
ships that bring up oxygen as well and

577
00:18:24,310 --> 00:18:21,679
we can actually split oxygen take water

578
00:18:25,750 --> 00:18:24,320
we can split the hydrogen and the oxygen

579
00:18:27,590 --> 00:18:25,760
and actually get oxygen from that as

580
00:18:29,029 --> 00:18:27,600
well so there there's multiple ways to

581
00:18:30,390 --> 00:18:29,039
get it it obviously goes down as we

582
00:18:31,750 --> 00:18:30,400
breathe it and we just have to replace

583
00:18:37,029 --> 00:18:31,760
it over time so it's something that we

584
00:18:40,710 --> 00:18:38,950
can you watch the atlanta braves game in

585
00:18:42,549 --> 00:18:40,720
space

586
00:18:43,909 --> 00:18:42,559
yes you can and that's an important

587
00:18:46,870 --> 00:18:43,919
thing to do i remember when i was up in

588
00:18:48,549 --> 00:18:46,880
space on one of them and i was actually

589
00:18:50,390 --> 00:18:48,559
when i was on a trip we flew over a

590
00:18:51,590 --> 00:18:50,400
georgia tech game and they actually

591
00:18:53,029 --> 00:18:51,600
announced this on

592
00:18:54,230 --> 00:18:53,039
on the news as the space station flew

593
00:18:55,990 --> 00:18:54,240
overhead i didn't hear about it at the

594
00:18:56,789 --> 00:18:56,000
time but when i landed people showed me

595
00:19:09,270 --> 00:18:56,799
the

596
00:19:10,710 --> 00:19:09,280
lot of times you're busy but you could

597
00:19:12,549 --> 00:19:10,720
watch it you know on a weekend or when

598
00:19:14,390 --> 00:19:12,559
you have some time you know at night or

599
00:19:15,110 --> 00:19:14,400
something like that get a tape for you

600
00:19:16,549 --> 00:19:15,120
but

601
00:19:17,909 --> 00:19:16,559
you know only for big things do you get

602
00:19:18,950 --> 00:19:17,919
a chance maybe like the world series or

603
00:19:20,789 --> 00:19:18,960
something you might get a chance to

604
00:19:21,990 --> 00:19:20,799
watch that there's not a television that

605
00:19:23,750 --> 00:19:22,000
you can turn on and just watch

606
00:19:26,150 --> 00:19:23,760
whatever's on television but the folks

607
00:19:28,070 --> 00:19:26,160
who work here at mission control in

608
00:19:30,470 --> 00:19:28,080
houston can

609
00:19:32,549 --> 00:19:30,480
take uh whether it's a braves game or or

610
00:19:35,270 --> 00:19:32,559
the world series or the super bowl or

611
00:19:37,029 --> 00:19:35,280
something they can they can send that up

612
00:19:39,909 --> 00:19:37,039
to the crew members and they can watch

613
00:19:42,070 --> 00:19:39,919
it on on a laptop on a computer laptop

614
00:19:44,230 --> 00:19:42,080
screen so they can keep up with things

615
00:19:45,350 --> 00:19:44,240
like that and most crews request those

616
00:19:46,549 --> 00:19:45,360
kind of things and that's we have a

617
00:19:48,390 --> 00:19:46,559
group here that on the ground that

618
00:19:49,990 --> 00:19:48,400
actually helps us get that kind of what

619
00:19:55,909 --> 00:19:50,000
you're looking to watch while you're up

620
00:20:01,669 --> 00:19:59,270
have you seen anything unusual in space

621
00:20:03,110 --> 00:20:01,679
not counting your crewmates

622
00:20:04,470 --> 00:20:03,120
yeah the things that you see an unusual

623
00:20:06,470 --> 00:20:04,480
in space probably the biggest things is

624
00:20:07,909 --> 00:20:06,480
just how amazing the world is when you

625
00:20:09,510 --> 00:20:07,919
look out the window i mean you can

626
00:20:10,789 --> 00:20:09,520
really see the planets alive you look

627
00:20:12,630 --> 00:20:10,799
out the window and you can see the

628
00:20:13,909 --> 00:20:12,640
atmosphere you can see the blueness of

629
00:20:15,830 --> 00:20:13,919
the oceans there's a lot of places you

630
00:20:17,430 --> 00:20:15,840
fly over in the earth that you're a good

631
00:20:18,950 --> 00:20:17,440
chance you won't get to see in real life

632
00:20:21,270 --> 00:20:18,960
and there are a few places when i was on

633
00:20:22,710 --> 00:20:21,280
orbit i i saw new zealand it was one of

634
00:20:23,990 --> 00:20:22,720
the things that always flew underneath

635
00:20:26,310 --> 00:20:24,000
us fairly often and i got the

636
00:20:27,830 --> 00:20:26,320
opportunity i was lucky enough to to go

637
00:20:29,909 --> 00:20:27,840
down to new zealand later and it was

638
00:20:31,669 --> 00:20:29,919
neat to compare the the view that you

639
00:20:33,430 --> 00:20:31,679
saw from space and and the view so the

640
00:20:36,230 --> 00:20:33,440
things that i that was most unusual is

641
00:20:42,470 --> 00:20:36,240
seeing us seeing our planet from from a

642
00:20:46,870 --> 00:20:44,230
what is your favorite thing about living

643
00:20:50,470 --> 00:20:48,950
i'd have to say the my favorite thing

644
00:20:52,070 --> 00:20:50,480
about living in space is really just the

645
00:20:53,909 --> 00:20:52,080
mission i it's one of the things i like

646
00:20:54,950 --> 00:20:53,919
being about an astronaut is the people

647
00:20:56,310 --> 00:20:54,960
that you're working with and it's not

648
00:20:57,990 --> 00:20:56,320
just the astronauts that are onboard the

649
00:20:59,750 --> 00:20:58,000
space station it's it's everyone that's

650
00:21:01,270 --> 00:20:59,760
in the team because when you see an

651
00:21:02,789 --> 00:21:01,280
astronaut in space there's actually a

652
00:21:04,230 --> 00:21:02,799
thousand people that are behind that are

653
00:21:06,310 --> 00:21:04,240
doing we have a control room here we

654
00:21:07,669 --> 00:21:06,320
have control you know rooms that are

655
00:21:09,270 --> 00:21:07,679
actually behind the control room that

656
00:21:11,029 --> 00:21:09,280
support the control and things that are

657
00:21:12,070 --> 00:21:11,039
going on the people that design the

658
00:21:13,270 --> 00:21:12,080
hardware

659
00:21:14,710 --> 00:21:13,280
you get to go out and meet a lot of

660
00:21:16,710 --> 00:21:14,720
these people that worked on the thing

661
00:21:18,230 --> 00:21:16,720
the scientific effort it's it's really

662
00:21:19,669 --> 00:21:18,240
just a huge big effort and it's really

663
00:21:21,270 --> 00:21:19,679
neat and then we've talked about the

664
00:21:23,029 --> 00:21:21,280
international partnership that we were

665
00:21:25,430 --> 00:21:23,039
talking about earlier and it's just one

666
00:21:26,870 --> 00:21:25,440
of those things that uh you know you

667
00:21:29,029 --> 00:21:26,880
have astronauts that are from different

668
00:21:30,470 --> 00:21:29,039
countries you have teams from different

669
00:21:31,669 --> 00:21:30,480
countries and all this is going on at

670
00:21:33,110 --> 00:21:31,679
the same time when you start thinking

671
00:21:34,789 --> 00:21:33,120
about it and you look at it and then you

672
00:21:36,310 --> 00:21:34,799
look at the planet and you realize

673
00:21:38,549 --> 00:21:36,320
there's this huge team effort and all

674
00:21:39,830 --> 00:21:38,559
these people involved to me it's it's

675
00:21:40,950 --> 00:21:39,840
probably the most exciting thing about

676
00:21:42,950 --> 00:21:40,960
the space station the thing that i

677
00:21:48,470 --> 00:21:42,960
really think is the coolest part about

678
00:21:53,510 --> 00:21:51,909
how does mission control help you

679
00:21:55,029 --> 00:21:53,520
well mission control does a lot of

680
00:21:56,870 --> 00:21:55,039
things for us they they really kind of

681
00:21:58,789 --> 00:21:56,880
set the schedule for the day so every

682
00:22:00,789 --> 00:21:58,799
day when a creamer wakes up we have

683
00:22:02,149 --> 00:22:00,799
meetings the day before that and then

684
00:22:03,669 --> 00:22:02,159
that day they get up and they look at

685
00:22:04,789 --> 00:22:03,679
the things that they're going to do and

686
00:22:06,230 --> 00:22:04,799
they kind of have a schedule and a lot

687
00:22:07,590 --> 00:22:06,240
of times we come up with challenges

688
00:22:10,310 --> 00:22:07,600
where something doesn't work the way we

689
00:22:12,789 --> 00:22:10,320
expect or we have like tomorrow we have

690
00:22:13,830 --> 00:22:12,799
a vehicle coming up for rendezvous a lot

691
00:22:15,029 --> 00:22:13,840
of these things are going on in the

692
00:22:16,149 --> 00:22:15,039
background where the crew member is not

693
00:22:17,669 --> 00:22:16,159
directly involved in it but they're

694
00:22:19,029 --> 00:22:17,679
keeping us informed on what's going on

695
00:22:21,270 --> 00:22:19,039
with those vehicles

696
00:22:23,029 --> 00:22:21,280
and when you have problems that's the

697
00:22:24,390 --> 00:22:23,039
the the ground crew there

698
00:22:26,310 --> 00:22:24,400
pretty much we work back and forth

699
00:22:28,070 --> 00:22:26,320
continuously we're constantly having

700
00:22:29,909 --> 00:22:28,080
discussions we're having email traffic

701
00:22:31,510 --> 00:22:29,919
go up and down we get videos that they

702
00:22:33,430 --> 00:22:31,520
come up and down that talk about the

703
00:22:34,149 --> 00:22:33,440
experiments that we're working on or or

704
00:22:37,590 --> 00:22:34,159
the

705
00:22:38,630 --> 00:22:37,600
vehicle so mission control is extremely

706
00:22:40,549 --> 00:22:38,640
involved and it's one of the big

707
00:22:41,830 --> 00:22:40,559
training areas we even have a person

708
00:22:43,669 --> 00:22:41,840
that we call a capcom here in the

709
00:22:45,029 --> 00:22:43,679
control room that actually talks

710
00:22:46,310 --> 00:22:45,039
takes the what the control arm is

711
00:22:48,789 --> 00:22:46,320
talking about and then pipes it up to

712
00:22:50,630 --> 00:22:48,799
the astronauts and vice versa so it's

713
00:22:52,950 --> 00:22:50,640
it's a very essential part of the the

714
00:22:58,950 --> 00:22:52,960
whole mission of getting the job done

715
00:23:03,350 --> 00:23:01,190
did you ever think you'd be a pilot for

716
00:23:05,029 --> 00:23:03,360
nasa

717
00:23:07,270 --> 00:23:05,039
you know i it was one of those far-off

718
00:23:09,350 --> 00:23:07,280
dreams but it's you know now that i'm in

719
00:23:10,549 --> 00:23:09,360
this position i i really consider myself

720
00:23:12,149 --> 00:23:10,559
extremely fortunate to get the

721
00:23:14,549 --> 00:23:12,159
opportunity there's a lot of people that

722
00:23:16,070 --> 00:23:14,559
that apply and want to do it and and

723
00:23:17,909 --> 00:23:16,080
there are those out there in your group

724
00:23:19,750 --> 00:23:17,919
that uh i hope you will if you're

725
00:23:21,909 --> 00:23:19,760
interested in space we'll uh we'll put

726
00:23:23,350 --> 00:23:21,919
your name on it because i just like you

727
00:23:25,029 --> 00:23:23,360
i was sitting in a classroom just like

728
00:23:26,630 --> 00:23:25,039
you were in in georgia and it was an

729
00:23:28,230 --> 00:23:26,640
opportunity to

730
00:23:29,830 --> 00:23:28,240
to get the chance to go through so study

731
00:23:31,029 --> 00:23:29,840
hard in school look at those math and

732
00:23:33,270 --> 00:23:31,039
sciences and keep doing what you're

733
00:23:34,870 --> 00:23:33,280
doing and you could be sitting in

734
00:23:36,390 --> 00:23:34,880
this seat talking to some other people

735
00:23:39,110 --> 00:23:36,400
from georgia in the future

736
00:23:41,430 --> 00:23:39,120
eric we're our time is about up i want

737
00:23:43,110 --> 00:23:41,440
to thank you for joining us and and

738
00:23:44,950 --> 00:23:43,120
providing some thoughtful answers about

739
00:23:45,909 --> 00:23:44,960
the job that you do well you're welcome