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kennedy space center this is mission

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station this is my curie at the kennedy

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mike it's fantastic to talk to you today

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thank you chris we're going to turn

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things over now to uh florida today

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senior aerospace reporter todd halverson

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usa today and gannett company

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are banding together with the florida

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institute of technology

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to study the effects of

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long-term space flight on astronauts

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countermeasures being developed for

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combating those adverse effects and how

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real people on earth might benefit let

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me get right to the students for

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how has your background as an

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as part of the us navy seal team help

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that's a great question in a number of

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ways all of us have different uh variety

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as we come into the space program and uh

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as you mentioned i'm from the military

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and the navy seal teams and what i

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really brought with me uh from that

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experience is teamwork how to be a good

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and be part of a small unit a small

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group of folks accomplishing a specific

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mission and that's exactly what we're

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doing uh here in the space program and

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and then more along the lines of what

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you're studying the physical aspect of

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physical training in the seal teams and

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that's very very important

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to keep our bodies not only healthy

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while we're here but more importantly so

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that we can return safely and not have

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too big of a

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hill to overcome when we get back on the

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okay thank you

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does being in space have the same

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effects of cabin fever in terms of

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that if you're here for a really long

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um no end in mind then it could you

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be cautious about cabin fever type type

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up here uh what we're doing i haven't

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had the hint a hint of that we're busy

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every day i feel like we're

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accomplishing great science uh

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every day and also uh contributing to

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the maintenance of the space station uh

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on a daily or weekly basis and

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and just the social aspect of being with

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my two russian colleagues right now and

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then in just a short week we'll have

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three other folks arrive and being part

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of that crew and sharing meals together

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and looking out the window together it

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just for me has i haven't had a hint of

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cabin fever yet now if you were going to

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to practice for a mars mission and not

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psychologically but if you're going to

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my question is studies show that daily

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supplements are important in protecting

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astronauts from the effects of radiation

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regime and what daily supplements do you

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a multivitamin type of thing and then

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that's all that's all my my uh

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vitamin regime really is

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studies of this type of nature and maybe

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with your research that you're doing

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will learn that well we can do better

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than that but for now that's uh that's

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we in our sleeping quarters we have some

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panels around the edge that'll help

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mitigate the effects of radiation

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and that sort of thing but in terms of

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alemacy does nasa issue magnifying

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has nasa come up with a new carbon

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dioxide scrubber

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vision issues that we have at that time

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uh be the effects of our long our six

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months in space and how that might

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affect our eyes and we are

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a new carbon dioxide scrubber and to my

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knowledge it's just the same same one i

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that uh there is anything in work to

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your research as you progress further

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question is what do you do to prevent

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bone loss for example is there a

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specific exercise regimen that you

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there any kind of regimen during

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bone loss and i think that's important

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density uh loss is a is a problem and

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hip or some major bone and have a really

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conditioning coaches on the ground that

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provide us with the particular regime

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what what it is but it's nothing exotic

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back on the planet so that's the that's

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within your voluntary muscles for

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example your arms or legs if so what

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locker and you could sort of joke around

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call our node three the small arms

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repair locker because we get on that

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machine every single day but uh that's

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the exercises that i just referred to

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squats and those types of things because

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the room that you're in you're you guys

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the machine so so uh

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device to use i find in on 30 minutes on

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our onboard bicycle my heart rate is

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program but i i enjoy it because it i

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hello my name is kimberly shafer

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different parts in my sinus cavities or

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some type of immune thing it's pretty

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clean up here and we have really great

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just fluid type shifting so i don't know

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i'm not a medical doctor but that is

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definitely an interesting question and

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and at times you need to keep a box of

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kleenex in your sleeping quarters to

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hi chris my name is jennifer nesmith and

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my question is what's the best thing

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about being aboard the iss and what's

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the worst thing about being aboard the

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hard to say a worse thing

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i think you're going to pin me down and

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make me say something so i'll save that

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second the best thing i think is

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just like in life it's not the fun

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things that you do it's it's who you

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experience those things with

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we have our families and our colleagues

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at work on the ground that we

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share things with and up here i'm

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sharing uh these special times with my

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crew members so uh

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with pavel and sasha and the soyuz ride

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to get here and with chris and tom and

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rahman in addition to pablo and sasha

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for the last couple months the times

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that we have had will be memories that

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i'll have forever and when karen and

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luca and fyodor arrive next week

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it that will continue so that is the

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number one thing a close second is

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looking out the window but uh you just

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can't beat the whole experience with

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wonderful people

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and uh

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the worst thing gosh that's hard because

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i i am enjoying this whole experience

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but i if you made me say i would

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probably say that there's a timeline

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that we follow every day and there's a

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little red line that represents the real

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time and we have a bunch of jobs to do

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and uh and always thinking about uh how

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your day's going relative to what you

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need to be doing um is something that

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come when it comes to friday you're

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ready for the weekend so you can not

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quite have that a little bit less

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pressure on that timeline but even that

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none of those things are horrible it's

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just maybe that's the one thing that

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when you get back i get back on earth

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i'll be looking forward to not have to

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worry about making those time decisions

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man again

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what kinds of tests do you go through

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while in space what are you monitoring

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about yourself health health-wise and

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i think you said what type of tests do

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we undergo while i'm up here

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is that right

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okay sorry about that um

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so

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preflight we uh

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sign up for a particular suite of

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experiments and each person's different

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a different program and depends on the

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available time and the science

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needs at the time of your lunch

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for me i'm part of

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a

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times throughout throughout the mission

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and during though that time we monitor

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our urine ph and we take samples of that

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and also take samples of our blood and

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those get sent back down to the earth so

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so that's one form of tests

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additional to that

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um the use of

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ultrasound

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in a way to give information that we we

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typically get in america from mris with

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the implication being in in location

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remote locations and uh

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less fortunate countries as our own

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where you can't get to an mri machine to

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diagnose a problem where you can pack in

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a suitcase of an ultrasound machine to

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help identify or or uh figure out a

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treatment for a certain problem that

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that a particular person is having so

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one part of that experiment as well

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where i'm a test subject as well as my

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other cremates for uh for this

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ultrasound and a few other ones but

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those are the things that that jump to

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mind right away as i answer your

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thank you

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my name is michael champion and my

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question is

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how long does it take to be in space

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before psychological stress occurs and

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well i think that depends person to

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person um and it can this is a

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roundabout answer because i don't have a

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definite one for you it depends person

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to person and the manifestation can be

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in different ways from small things like

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irritability or just the desire to

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not eat a meal with your crew mates for

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a particular day and just kind of be by

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yourself to maybe even a little bit

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cranky and snappy at the at the people

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on the radio or at your crewmates i

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haven't seen any of that yet

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but preflight when we talk about it with

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uh with our medical specialists those

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are the signs and symptoms that we're

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told to look out for so that more

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importantly than anything else we can

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monitor ourselves and we when we realize

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that

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of symptom coming we can back off or or

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call the ground and say hey i need a

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little bit

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of a reprieve today because you know

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whatever

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that that type of thing so really it's

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self self monitoring

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to be honest i i enjoy the company and

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my crewmates a lot and and look forward

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to those meals when we get together and

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can talk and laugh about what happened

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in the day or or

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talk about the plan for the upcoming

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days or weeks

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to give you a specific answer sorry for

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such a roundabout answer but it just

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depends so much on the person and the

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thank you

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commander cassidy i'm heidi hatfield

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edwards and on behalf of my students and

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the communication program at florida

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institute of technology thank you so

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much for answering our questions and

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being a part of this collaboration with

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florida today and usa today thank you so

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oh you're very welcome heidi hadfield

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and i you have a good last name because

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my class crewmate as you probably know

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was named chris hadfield so uh my

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pleasure to be with you today and

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hopefully i could help a little bit with

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what what you're studying

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it's a really interesting place and it's

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my desire to share all of it with all of

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station this is houston acr thank you

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thank you florida institute of

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technology in florida today station we