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station this is houston are you ready

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houston this is space station we are

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ready for the event

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at talbot innovation middle school this

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is mission control in houston please

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call station for a voice check

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station this is ben squire at talbot

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innovation middle school how do you hear

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ben i'm so glad to finally talk to you

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from space i've been looking forward to

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talking with you and your school for

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quite a while good morning it's great to

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be with you from the international space

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thank you very much chris we'll get

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hello miss hello mr cassidy my name is

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i'm interested in knowing what is it

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like

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oh the feeling of zero gravity is is

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just tremendous and yes it's very easy

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for to do a flip uh and i can do it with

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hopefully not crashing my head into the

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ceiling but it feels just tremendous

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imagine if you were in your classroom

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right there

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and instead of sitting in the chairs

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that you are everybody was floating in

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the middle of the room and having a

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discussion that's what it's like every

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time we have dinner together on board

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hello

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you think that humans losing mars is

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madison

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that's a really intriguing question

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i definitely think humans going to mars

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is realistic and in fact um when one of

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you guys is an astronaut it i really

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believe it'll happen uh maybe not in the

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time while i'm an active

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active astronaut but what um

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myself and the others that are working

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at nasa right now are paving the way to

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so that all the support systems and

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things like this uh will be in place

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that you know you can rely reliably

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trust those uh those systems as you

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travel on to mars it's a long way as you

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know to get there and given the current

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propulsion technology it would take a

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significant amount of time and i'd have

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to think long and hard about going

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because it's a long time away from

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family and friends and loved ones but

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it's a great goal to have to get to mars

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so i'd really think think about that if

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we deve as we're developing new

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technologies which are uh

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serious uh this a serious process of

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development right now that could get us

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there in much much shorter of a time

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with a constant low thrust constant

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propulsion that can get us to mars much

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more quickly so that's exciting for me

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to think about to pave the way for folks

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like you to be walking on mars and not

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hello mr cassidy my name is kenneth and

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i'm in the sixth grade i was wondering

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what kind of projects is rover not used

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our buddy robonaut is an interesting

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he doesn't take up

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much space when he's packed away in his

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in his side he's very quiet and minds

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his manners so we love having him on

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now what he's used for right now is

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to function and the ground teams are

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running through their test programs to

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make sure that he's safe and we can

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trust him to do tasks and things like

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not too distant future

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procedures and to ten to ten perhaps to

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certain experiments right now he's not

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quite ready for that

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the test program

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making sure that everything is sorted

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out and squared away but it's pretty

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neat to see him

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and when you put on the virtual reality

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glasses it's as if you

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are robonaut looking through his vision

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and your hands can move and his hands

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respond so it's a really really fun

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experiment for us to try and uh and work

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hello my name is joseph and i wanted to

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know how do gases and liquids move

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differently in space with with zero

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surface tension of the of the liquids

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camera very well but

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those bubbles uh

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float around and if it's not water

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it can get on our walls and on saturday

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mornings we have to clean that up but

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how the liquid behaves really just sort

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part of the the story it's to circulate

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co2 if i didn't the co2 around me would

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just form a bubble around my head if the

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air conditioning system wasn't working

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the way it is to circulate that air and

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get everything flowing around so we have

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hello mr cassie my name is haley i'm in

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sixth grade i was wondering what would

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happen if you went outside the space

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well the short answer is uh my wife and

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kids and mom and dad and brother would

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not be too happy because i wouldn't last

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your the liquids in your body would

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basically boil away and it's much like

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if they climb without oxygen bottles as

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they climb up there is getting thinner

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harder to breathe as we would be in the

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airlock without our spacesuit if we ever

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breathe because the air is thinner and

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thinner and less oxygen models molecules

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to work until you get to the vacuum of

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space and there's some number magic

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number where you wouldn't even reach the

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vacuum you would you'd be uh

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hello mr cassidy my name is sadie and i

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how beautiful the earth looks from up

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about 250 miles uh so we can't see the

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whole globe at once imagine if you're

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the horizon kind of crossed over

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the car that's kind of what we see and

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we can see instead of just that we see

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that amount of a circle underneath us

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south america and if i looked out the

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our right-hand side as we're passing and

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what what what does that appear it's the

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ocean and the white clouds

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deserts and you mix all that together

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wonderful spaceship we all have and

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share that uh as our home that we call

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earth and it makes me want to take care

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of it and enjoy every moment that we

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hello mr cassidy this is keith i am

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interested in knowing what would happen

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if a satellite or space debris were

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well keith that's a a real threat

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actually and the the way we mitigate

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that threat or lessen the risk for that

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the world that can help

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intersect that predicted path might

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predicted path and we have really smart

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several days and if it looks like it's

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it lessens the likelihood that that will

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could it's always a risk that that they

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would hit and in the event that it hit

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the space station and penetrated a hole

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that's where we train for emergencies

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where we have the ability to close

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certain hatches and isolate that leak to

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just one compartment and we'd have the

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remainder of the space station to be

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safe in and in the worst case scenario

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undock from the space station and come

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hello mr cassidy my name is anastasia

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200 and you get zero so that's how i

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when we put the gravity back into that

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math problem my weight will come right

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hello mr cassidy this is kara and sarah

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we were wondering if it's scarier

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the short answer would be coming home

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because we're we know we're already here

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and you still got to get back and if you

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think about it

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all of the energy all that fire and

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smoke and vibrations that goes into

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launch day that pushes us up to to uh to

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space

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all of that energy has to come back out

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and how does it come back out in the

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form of heat on the bottom of our space

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craft so

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and we have

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certain shields on the bottom that that

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prevent that heat from melting through

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the metal and once we get low enough

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those heat shields

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fall away

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and will come down under parachute but

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it's a really dynamic part coming back

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into re-entry to the atmosphere and uh

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for me that's part a part that

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we will be really focused on making sure

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we know how to safely respond to

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anything that goes wrong but it

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hello mr cassidy my name is rebecca i

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was wondering what safety procedures are

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well my last crewmate that just left

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last week tom marshburn he was a medical

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doctor so fortunately for us during my

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first two months on board if there was a

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medical problem then he would take care

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of it and he'd be right there his

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emergency medical physician but that's

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not the case all the time

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and what would be the situation if he

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was the one that was hurt so in order to

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protect for that all of us have a basic

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level of

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i would say emergency medicine of the

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airways and breathing and circulation

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kind of things for an immediate response

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how to deal with a choking victim and

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things like this

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unfortunately we have highly trained

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medical professionals and doctors who

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are on console in mission control and if

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we did have a problem like that um as

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soon as we get the person situated and

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start working on them we'd be

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immediately on the radio talking to

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those folks on the ground who in a form

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of telemedicine really would help us

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navigate our way through the the medical

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problem and make sure that person got

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the best care that they could get

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hello mr cassidy my name is hannah and

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i'm in seventh grade and i was wondering

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how often do you have to talk with your

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well once a week we have a scheduled

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video conference much like skype or

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facetime it's not those particular

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programs but

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the same type of thing where they can

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see me and i can see them and that's

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usually on the weekends

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we of course have email

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and and depending on where we are around

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the world and how the satellite coverage

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lines up

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we do have a program on our computers

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where we can

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basically dial a phone number and it'll

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ring

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on the phone on earth and we can talk

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for a little bit but the satellite

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coverage comes and goes so that's not uh

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a full-time thing that we can use but if

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the communication is really good in fact

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um you know i i sometimes feel like i'm

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more in touch with my family on the

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space station than when i was traveling

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back and forth to all the different

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training locations

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in the previous couple of years leading

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hello mr cassidy my name is connor and

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i'm in 6th grade i was wondering how

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much of your time during one day is

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well that's interesting because um if

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everything goes well with the space

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station which knock on wood has been

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going well for for us up here we had one

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small problem with an ammonia system but

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we have that fixed now if everything

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goes well we can devote a lot of time

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per day to science experiments let's

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take today in particular all morning

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from right after breakfast until right

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before lunch

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i was working on this really neat

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experiment called spheres and what they

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are are

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little small circular satellites about

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the size of a soccer ball with a way

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they have a way to navigate themselves

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inside our volume right where i'm

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standing actually is where they were

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where they were

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maneuvering around each other and

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creating a map

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of this environment and navigating with

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that map

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that's what those spheres were doing so

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i was part of really just setting up the

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experiment for the real uh scientists

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who are on the ground who are following

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along and helping me

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troubleshoot any things that arose

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that that was today so that was maybe

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four hours four and a half hours worth

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of science just today alone and then

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this afternoon i have some exercise and

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some more maintenance things

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so the short answer to your question is

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probably in a good day about four hours

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and if once we have multiple crew up

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here that number

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multiplies so it's really exciting place

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to be and to perform perform all this

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hello mr cassidy this is calvin and i

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was wondering why is middle school math

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and science important to learn and

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well calvin um

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math and science is not just important

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to become an astronaut it's important

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life skill in my opinion

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from simple things like knowing how to

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converting money when you travel

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overseas all those are small little math

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problems that you do every day that as

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you get older you don't really think

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about that you're doing math but you are

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and we have complicated complicated math

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problems that are happening up here on

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the space station such as those debris

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avoidance maneuvers the way i described

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how the space station has to

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calculate its uh its trajectory based on

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some other particles trajectory and move

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to a different position that is a really

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hard uh basically math problem where you

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have to figure out the angles and the

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geometry of all those

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particles down to simple math problems

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that we have up here

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like i

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said converting money is a small thing

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on on earth but up here we have to maybe

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calculate the time differences between

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experiments that we're conducting in

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things like this so

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math and science are fundamental

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things that we use throughout our day

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whether you're in space on the ground or

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somewhere in between

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i can't say enough how important it is

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to develop a strong foundation in that

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hello mr cassidy my name is morgan and i

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am in seventh grade i was wondering when

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you go to space about how long does it

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take you to get through earth's

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well once we climb into the rocket we

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get in we get in the rocket about two

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and a half hours before launch but that

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time doesn't count towards your answer

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once the once the rocket lights and we

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lift off the pad

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the rockets are burning for about eight

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and a half to nine minutes then the

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engine's cut off and we are safely in

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orbit we have to do a few small

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adjustments to be

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in a more stable orbit

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and if we're not going to rendezvous to

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the space station we would stay there

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and then the next day

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do a few maneuvers to catch up and align

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ourselves with the space station and on

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the third day we would rendezvous

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however

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we've tried a new technique which myself

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and my two russian crewmates pavel

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vinogradov and sasha misurkin had the

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honor and privilege of of trying out for

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the first time a few months ago and that

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was we rendezvoused to the space station

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six hours after liftoff so we did though

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that eight and a half minutes that i

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talked about and then over the course of

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the next five hours or so

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we did a series of maneuvers to catch up

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to the space station now

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speaking of math to let you appreciate

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how complicated all of that that that's

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going on the scientists that and

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engineers that calculate those maneuvers

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the space station is traveling 17 500

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miles an hour or five miles every second

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and

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the

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in has to rendezvous with that imagine a

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quarterback on a football team throwing

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a ball to a receiver who was running

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five miles a second across the field and

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you have to throw that pass and hit him

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perfectly and that's how these engineers

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calculate the the maneuver of our

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spacecraft and so over the course of

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those six hours we successfully caught

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up to the space station going 17 500

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hello

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was wondering how was launching with the

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russians different than watching with

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well the most notable noticeable thing

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for me was all the books that i had in

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front of me were written in a language

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that i'm not familiar with

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i'm familiar with it now i'm sort of

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joking

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because of all the training and russian

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language training that i've had

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but it's very comfortable in the shuttle

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as a native english speaker to have all

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the procedure books written in your

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native language it's quite different uh

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in in the in the soyuz for me but we do

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so much training and i'm very familiar

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with pablo and sasha that within our

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cockpit we all knew the roles and things

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that had to happen much like uh with our

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shuttle crew the same sort of feeling i

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had a true sense of confidence that we

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could accomplish any malfunction

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that that

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that arose and we would do our best to

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solve it

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the other noticeable difference is size

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the soyuz is more

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i don't know if you know these cars are

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called a mini cooper

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but the soyuz is more like that just a

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couple of people really kind of squished

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in there in a few bags whereas the

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shuttle is a larger like pickup truck

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kind of thing where you get a lot of

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cargo and you have bigger seats

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so it's two different styles and not

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not it does neither one's right or wrong

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it's just that uh it's different design

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on what what it needs to do

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so it's much more small and compact

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inside the soyuz and the shuttle is a

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little bit larger but both uh the ride

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to space on either vehicle is a

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tremendous experience and uh one that i

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chris it's ben squire again i just want

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to thank you very much from all the

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students at talbot for this great

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experience and

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well ben thanks thanks so much for

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arranging this what a treat it is to be

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with you there in fall river

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massachusetts and uh

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when i get back on earth i'll eventually

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be in new england and maybe in the early

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spring of 2014 we can arrange

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an in-person visit so thanks thanks very

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much ben take care and all of you

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houston acr thank you that concludes the

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