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station this is houston are you ready

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we're ready for the event houston

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wcsh tv this is mission control houston

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yes station this is wcsh tv do you hear

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loud and clear good morning to maine

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good morning gentlemen how are you

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we are talking with our afternoon

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i'm sorry you go ahead

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go ahead

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no we're doing great it's a privilege to

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you go ahead chris you you go ahead i'll

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be quiet

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i'm chris nasa astronaut chris cassidy

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here with my crewmate tom marshburn

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expedition 35 on the international space

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station and just really excited to be

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here and share a little bit about our

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day with

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well it's fantastic to have you and and

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chris as you remember i'm sure we spoke

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to you just a little bit before you

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blasted off and headed up to the space

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station and the first thing i want to

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ask you is is i i was unaware at that

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time that you were going to take the

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express route up to the space station i

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understand you got there a lot faster

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than as usual maybe you could talk a

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little bit about what you did to do that

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yeah that was interesting typically

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launch go to bed wake up have a whole

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day of maneuvers in between and on the

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third day we'll rendezvous to the space

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station however on our launch we did

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something a little bit different and we

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and essentially in the cockpit we did

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that three-day period except it was a

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little bit more squished together

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it was really cool to be

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just walking on earth and then later on

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have my next meal on board the space

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i know it's kind of like flying from uh

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something it really didn't take all that

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long what was the reason behind trying

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well that's a great question you know um

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it allows us sometimes if we're doing uh

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uh carrying sensitive cargo that has

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temperature constraints or some type of

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deep freeze type sample that needs to

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get to the space station quickly it

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opens up opportunities for scientific uh

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exploration like that and also it's a

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little bit more comfortable for the crew

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in terms of that that one day inside the

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soyuz we do sort of a if if you do the

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be a little disorienting inside the

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it's really nice to do your space

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adaptation here on the space station in

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a much larger volume so it's just kind

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all right that makes sense to those of

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dr marshburn i wanted to ask you you've

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is is one of your many jobs to kind of

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away and we've been fully functional it

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we know a little bit about chris's

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history and how he came from york maine

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and and went uh through you know all the

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way to becoming an astronaut what was

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the what was your path to becoming an

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school when i decided i wanted to work

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for nasa after reading about some

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satellites and robotic operations and

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the school library i never thought i'd

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get to be an astronaut but i followed

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the paths of a lot of career astronauts

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and copied them just because it was so

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much fun and offered so many offered so

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many opportunities in life and i ended

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getting in so it was a long road but it

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i'm very curious about what what your

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day is like now i know you have lots of

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jobs you have to do while you're on the

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space station but do you wake up at the

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same time every day are you going on

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because there's mission control centers

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all around the world who are who are uh

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participating in our day so what time do

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we live by and the answer to that is

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greenwich mean time we wake up at around

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six o'clock uh greenwich mean time so

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you in maine and uh and we'll go we'll

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have a morning tag up with the ground

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about 7 30 and then get right to work

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we're talking to you right now from the

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japanese module where there's quite a

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bit of scientific experiments that we'd

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was working right behind the camera

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and uh and we'll do various things

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experiments maintenance and exercise to

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common size in terms of of the modules

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tom and i don't get we we're just

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government employees so we didn't we

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didn't pay for the uh the the xle model

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bright as you can see

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you can see it's very bright and large

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module it has a closet upstairs so all

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the floor and tied down with with the

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cords but each module is unique in its

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station systems that keep takes to keep

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lights on so to speak or experiment so

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it's it's really fun to explore and get

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to get to know each uh each room so to

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how the camera is framed are you guys

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interesting okay and and i mean aside

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scientists and you're doing serious work

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boy i imagine it is now i know we've

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boy i imagine it must be fascinating

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must be wonderful it's been wonderful

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talking to you both thank you so much

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for taking time out of your day i know

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you have a lot going on

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again expedition 35 flight engineers

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thanks so much thanks so much have a

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great day and next week is maine space

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week so stay tuned for all you kids out

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station this is houston acr that

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hello hello you want me to talk

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hello is this uh tim welcome onboard the

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from siriusxm uh by the way also a uh a

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bangor born fellow went to colby college

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so i have something in common with mr

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oh very good it's nice to talk to to a

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speak to you here on siriusxm satellite

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radio going nationwide coast to coast

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can you give us a sense of where you are

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right now we're about noontime east

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right now the entire space station is we

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think in the southern pacific going 17

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500 miles an hour towards you uh heading

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for the united states and um we are in

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the forward part of the space station so

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we we are surrounded all around us by

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the vacuum of outer space except in one

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direction where the main axis of the

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space station is all right dr tom

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marshburn is on board as well as chris

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cassidy christopher cassidy commander uh

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first of all is this your first time

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cassidy here we flew together on the

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shuttle endeavor back in 2009 we came

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here to the space station that time

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to finish help finish the completion of

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well right now the station is complete

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it's a full up operating laboratory and

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our mission is to carry out uh

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many experience we have over 130

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experiments just right now going on uh

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during our increment so our job is to be

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the eyes in the hands of all the

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scientists around the world uh to help

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their experiments come to completion we

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resupply the experiments we fix them if

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they break and also involved into

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maintaining the space station to keep it

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running

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uh chris cassidy again commander who is

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on board first navy seal ever to i guess

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serve as an astronaut in space it must

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be different i can imagine the terrain

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the territory when you get into a place

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like afghanistan where you serve one

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thing then outer space something

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different give us a sense of what it's

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like being in space with alone just with

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a few guys when you're that far from

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well as as with most things in life what

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really uh what really makes things

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special is the people that you share it

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with and i'm really really privileged to

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have fantastic crewmates tom and and

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chris hadfield our canadian commander

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and our three russian cosmonauts and

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that's really what makes it special just

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like when i was in the middle in the

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navy and deploying to crazy places um

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what what it made that time really

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memorable for me is my platoon mates and

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and uh and folks that i served in

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military with so it's very much similar

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here and just for the record uh there

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was one other seal who was the first

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commander of the space station bill

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shepard and i i'm the second one to

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follow in his footsteps so it's a real

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uh privilege to be in that company with

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him all right well i appreciate your

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correction on that one uh i was i was

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noting and i'm reading and maybe you

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guys can fill me in on this whoever

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wants to take the question but i i saw a

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story about an antenna that had a

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problem to deploy

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and it might make

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some uh some docking difficult with the

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space station is that an up-to-date

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yep that's the story as we've got it

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it's called the progress vehicle it's

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cargo doesn't have people in it but it

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has some important supplies in it but

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you know we can we can really only

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barely do this space flight thing it's

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complicated uh these things happen and

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we've got backup plans

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in case it can't actually physically

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dock to the space station because of

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this antenna problem but we know in

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moscow they're working hard to fix it

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and we know the back back up plan is in

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work so we're just waiting to see what

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happens and hope the hardware cooperates

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and the backup plan i understand is a

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uh as far as we've heard that's right

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that's one of the backup plans yes yeah

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either either one of you ever done any

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well as a matter of fact uh we'll both

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answer that one uh we've done two

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together on our shuttle flight and we've

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each done three so uh it's it's a

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wonderful thing it's one of the

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pinnacles of flying in space i'll let

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chris tell you a little bit about it

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you know it's one it's one thing to be

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looking out the window it's amazing we

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have this room called the cupola here on

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the space station with windows all

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around it's one thing to be looking from

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inside the vehicle but when you open

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that hatch and step outside and the only

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thing between you and uh the amazing

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earth below you is your bubble of a

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helmet it really gets your attention and

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you and you appreciate where you are and

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how fast you're moving and that those

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first few seconds you hold on to the

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handrail say okay i'm not going to fall

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i'm not going to fall and then you kind

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of get used to it and before you know it

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it feels just like our training in the

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pools we have a really really great

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place to train in the in the pool there

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in houston so uh it's it's it's amazing

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doing a spacewalk though it's incredible

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you actually feel the speed i mean

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there's no resistance there's no air

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there's nothing to carry sound i mean

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give us a sense of what that is like

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on your body you fee you don't feel

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anything it's it's all with your eyes

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as you see there we're going 17 500

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miles an hour five miles a second which

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is really fast and you see that in the

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motion of the clouds and the earth below

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you but if you're focusing just on uh a

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piece of metal for instance right in

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front of you with it you're doing your

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work on the space walk with

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you can't sense any motion other than

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the little

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moving around that you're doing trying

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to keep yourself stable but in terms of

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with respect to the earth it's only when

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your eyes glance down there do you get a

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sense of how fast you're moving once

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again we're talking to dr thomas

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marshburn he's one of the astronauts on

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board the international space station as

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is commander christopher cassidy they're

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joining us here on potus as we are live

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and i started gentlemen with the in the

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beginning with the where are you and i

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wonder is there a way for you to know if

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people are going to be able to see you i

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know it was about a month and a half two

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months ago i was able to actually go in

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my backyard one night and see

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the space station is is one of those

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soon you know there's uh there are apps

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applications and uh

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many websites you can go to the nasa.gov

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website and they'll give you the exact

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time and the azimuth that is the angle

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above the horizon that the space station

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shows up in anyone's particular area so

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lots of viewing opportunities you know

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the earth precess is under our orbit so

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it's not every orbit that we come over

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every spot

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but should be plenty of viewing

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opportunities for any one of these many

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software applications you can look at

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well i know you're very busy and i know

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you've been doing a lot of talking to a

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lot of people today and i wish i was as

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smart about this mission as a lot of

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other reporters i don't cover it

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regularly but it's always fascinating to

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talk to people who do what you do

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and i know that it's been a change in

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the in the way that the space program is

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but still i know a lot of americans

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watch and listen and know and think of

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you guys as heroes in space and we just

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want to pass that along thank you very

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much for joining us and god speed on on

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we appreciate that tim very much it was

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really enjoyable talking to you thank