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station this is houston are you ready

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houston station we're ready for the

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event

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representative lamar smith this is

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mission control houston please call

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station for a voice check

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station this is congressman lamar smith

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i'm at fredericksburg high school with 1

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000 students in fredericksburg texas how

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congressman smith it's outstanding to be

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with you and be with the great folks

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from fredericksburg texas uh great to be

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with you today from the international

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space station and expedition 35. i hear

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you loud and clear

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this is great thank you for being with

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us and i'm going to turn the program uh

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over to the students who are going to

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have questions for you and

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that will occur right now again i'm with

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a thousand students and i hope you

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appreciate all the support you have from

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us you are our hero and uh we just

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appreciate everything you're doing for

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our country

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and brett williams if you'll come up

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good morning astronaut cassidy it's real

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privilege to speak with an american

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traveling at over 1700 miles per hour i

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also want to thank you for the services

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you've provided to this country at this

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time i'm not going to take any more time

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on our schedule i'm going to go ahead

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and introduce you to students from

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fredericksburg high school's stem

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hi my name is cole reynolds thank you

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my my question for you was what steps

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are needed to become an astronaut like

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yeah cole great question so

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first and foremost my opinion you need

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to be a nice person we want to fly in

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space with folks that we enjoy being

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with but

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that simply isn't enough to get you here

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what you need to start out doing is

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probably what you're doing right now by

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being part of the stem academy studying

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learning lessons

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both academically and lessons in life

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that other other mentors around you

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teach and then you do need to have a

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bachelor at least a bachelor's degree in

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a technical field

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many astronauts have a master's degree

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or some folks were in military aviation

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those are sort of the key tracks to go

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to get to the astronaut core however we

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have folks from all professions in life

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doctors a veterinarian school teachers

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navy folks like myself other services so

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it's really what i like to tell folks is

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do what you

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enjoy doing and what because when you do

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something that you enjoy you do it well

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and that's the first cut at becoming an

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astronaut is we'll take people that are

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successful and do things well in their

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chosen field and then we want nice

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senior and i'm a member of the freight

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and i was wondering what is the hardest

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issue to adjust to while being gone for

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there's the the human part about it

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that are that are there in houston and i

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miss them a lot um so that's one

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challenge when you're gone uh for a long

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time whether it be in space or in the

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military or if you work in

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oil production and you're off in the

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middle of nowhere trying to find oil any

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loved ones is hard

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is you live at your workplace and that

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terms of when you you need to have a

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place to get away on the weekends and

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just kind of relax and have some private

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time and we do that at the window or

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list watching movies and things like

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this so so those are probably the two

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hardest things getting uh you're missing

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hi i'm seth studebaker i'm a senior here

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you could tell us about some of the

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research that is being done on the space

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hi seth yeah sure be glad to um it's

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interesting there's

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many many many experiments going on

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experiments are going on without much

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astronaut intervention they're on the

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outside of the space station or in racks

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continuing on many of those we have to

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initiate ourselves and by by the

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astronauts and then they continue and

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some of which we're a part of ourselves

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spinal ultrasounds to see about bone

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ongoing with many different experiments

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see how the different diets affect

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ourselves and things like this

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material science there's several

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material science experiments going on

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outside as well as earlier today just

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a an experiment called bass in which

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we're testing the combustion properties

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substances with various conditions so

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many many many things going on and on

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any given day that's a fun part about

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hello i'm jacob ditmer i'm a senior

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a senior in the stem academy my question

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demineralization of human bones during a

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that fly in space because it's our

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personal health that we care about long

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term and we have a team of doctors that

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nothing if you do no exercise and and

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bone density loss those numbers vary

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significant loss so what do we do to

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basically strength turning resistive

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thing we can do and we need to put load

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some load in there so that the bones get

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zero gravity and get used to having that

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normal stresses that they have

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to nothing some folks have come back

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with node loss and others just very

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want to know when you're not busy

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working or finding figuring out big

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discoveries what do you do for

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interests up here are pretty much the

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same as what what we have on earth

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we have this place called the cupola

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which is this magnificent 360 degree

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window that's in our node 3. looks right

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the cupola and just look at the earth

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see a lot of the planet uh and then of

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course we also do the normal things

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humans as a whole

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we're not stuck in europe uh bold

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space exploration it probably in in my

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colonies of people on another planet and

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astronauts but your children perhaps

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learning right now on how to design

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build construct the critical systems it

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hi my name is daniel nguyen and i'm a

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i hate to tell you daniel but we don't

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shower on the iss it's a good thing that

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clean um we use baby wipes uh for most

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of uh you know just cleaning ourselves

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soap because it's difficult to get it

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flossing that's all normal so i i'd feel

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pretty clean each day so we

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hello my name is brian hefner i'm a

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academy and my question for you is what

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because it's such a fun place to be

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and my crewmates are so delightful to be

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around that it's really a stretch

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define a stressful thing but the one

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thing we do know is that we are one

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failure away in some

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system on the space station from having

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a stressful day and we have a lot of

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training in houston and russia and other

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parts of the world that participate in

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our training

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where we know how to react in the event

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of a problem the biggest ones are a fire

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a depressurization or we have some

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ammonia fluid

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that helps keep the thermal systems in

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equilibrium if ammonia leaks that could

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be bad as well so so we know how to

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respond to that

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i think that there is one mantra that we

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on the space station and that is that

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there's no nothing more important than

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what you're doing right now

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because at that any moment we could do

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something that could impact a system

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that could then

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either cause a problem right away or

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have follow-on effects to another

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problem that we would ultimately have to

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deal with an emergency so

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um i think the most to answer your

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question more specifically

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the most stressful thing is knowing that

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every minute of every day you could do

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something that could hurt the space

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station and uh and that in and of itself

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is a little stressful but we have a

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really great ground team

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in mission control that that supports

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all that and they write fantastic

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procedures and it's our job just to

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execute those procedures that are really

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hi i'm kate atmers and i'm a junior here

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at the stem academy

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and the question i would like to ask is

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what are your experiences with living so

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closely with people from different

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you know it's actually a real treat to

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do that and i highly recommend it

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because with that comes the learning of

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other cultures and

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english is the language

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that we communicate with to the ground

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but with amongst each other

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it's a mix of russian and english we all

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study russian uh for a long time before

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we fly in space and same with our

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russian cosmonauts they

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study english

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but neither of us are perfect in either

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language so

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heck i'm hardly perfect in english so

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we have this really mix of english and

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russian as we communicate

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and we learn about their cultures and

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traditions

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mostly around

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food and getting together and this sort

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of thing

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as they learn about ours

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that's one of the real treats about

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about space flight in fact anything in

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life

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fun

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is not it's not so much

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the event itself that's significant but

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it's really who you experience that

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amazing memorable fun thing with and

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that's how i describe this time up here

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on the space station is with just

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enjoying my crewmates from from canada

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the u.s and uh and

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in russia it's just been a fantastic

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my name is anissa canazi and i am a

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junior in the stem academy and i was

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wondering what is the most unique

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well

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um

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let's see i've been to the space station

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before in three years ago or in a little

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over three years ago in 2009

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but it's changed since then

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we've added this note 3 and cupola that

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i mentioned earlier

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so i would say the most significant

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event is having the opportunity to sit

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in the cupola and watch and and just

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watch the earth go by and along the same

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lines we had the russians had a

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spacewalk a week or two or weeks ago and

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because of where the hatches are and

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where their airlock is myself and sasha

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misurkin had to spend

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the ball the whole time of that

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spacewalk inside our soyuz module and

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and that was a really neat time for me

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there was

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we were forced to sit still and just

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look out the window

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talk to each other and enjoy the time

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without the pressures of uh of work to

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be done so that stands out in my mind as

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a really memorable uh event too is is

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hi my name is dot walt i'm a sophomore

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in the stem academy and i was going to

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ask how is the iss impacted by orbital

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well that's a fantastic question um

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it's a big sky

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and so you'd think how can you possibly

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run into anything up here but in fact

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there's orbital debris all over the

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place as you well know by asking this

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question

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and there's there's different places on

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the ground that can keep track of to a

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certain size particle

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on the different

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things that we

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might be in danger by and when they get

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within a certain range

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we'll do a maneuver to adjust our orbit

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altitude so to put us in a place that

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has less of a probability of impacting

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that item but there's some things that

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that perhaps the people can't track or

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and then there you know that would be a

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bad day if we had to deal with that and

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that's why we go through that emergency

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training

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but the space station is quite capable

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hi i'm joseph mohan a sophomore in the

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stem academy

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i i didn't hear you joseph can you say

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i said we'd like to see you do a front

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oh no problem here you go

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good thing the tough russian judges are

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chris that was the last question thank

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you again for your time today and thank

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thank you very much for your time and

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maybe sometime when i get back to the

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planet i can come visit fredericksburg

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in person and share my experiences with

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you thank you very much congressman

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station this is houston acr thank you

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that concludes our event thank you that

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concludes our event

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thank you representative smith and

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fredericksburg high school station we