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and we can get him walking

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there's again

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astronaut doug hurley husband of karen

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nyberg doug

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on a gorgeous day here in baikonur

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karen's ticket to ride is ready to uh

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be hoisted for final preparations for

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launch she's been training hard and for

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a long time for this flight what's her

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level of preparation excitement her

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anticipation at this point well i think

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it's a lot of everything rob you know

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she's as you said you know it's been

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almost a three year journey to get to

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this point there's just a tremendous

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amount of excitement and i think you

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know folks as they go through the

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training for one of these expeditions

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you kind of you know you keep plodding

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along and working hard and doing all

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your traveling and your training and

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then now it's finally that you know

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we're a couple days from a lot so she's

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very very excited to be getting ready to

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go finally

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so karen takes off she leaves the home

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fires burning for you uh

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how do you guys juggle the preparations

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and then obviously for the next five six

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months your execution of everything back

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at home well it's uh it's a lot of

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different things a lot of support from

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family and friends and and a lot of

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planning and uh you know karen is

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meticulous about everything in her life

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and you know i think we've got a good

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plan to get get our family through the

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next five months and and obviously with

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all the the great

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family support folks at nasa and all the

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things we can do she can call us from

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the space station we can do video

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conferences so

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i think i think we're well prepared for

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for a crew member in the final days

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before launch

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it's as much psychological as it is

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anything else to get in the right frame

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of mind have your wits about you all

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your procedures

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at your disposal what goes into these

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final days of training if you will or is

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it more relaxation than just getting in

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the right frame of mind so for the last

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couple weeks the crew has actually been

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down here in baikonur going through

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final fit checks and preparations for

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launch and they've had a pretty relaxed

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the last four days or so prior to launch

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accelerate pretty quickly and the

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preparations are very mundane whether

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it's packing up the things that you've

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had the last couple weeks or planning uh

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which bag will be in which location

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based on which landing site you may

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when you actually return and so karen's

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been going through all of those

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activities and i'll say the last four

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days or so have been pretty mundane

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until she leads up to the launch

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activities that of course are pretty

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exciting

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when she and her crew mates reach the

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international space station no time to

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lose they're often running on six months

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of almost every facet of human space

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flight with the visiting vehicles the

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space walks and so forth how complex

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will this increment be over the next six

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right rob this is going to be a very

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very busy increment the crew is going to

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face uh multiple visiting vehicles

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upwards of five spacewalks uh u.s and

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so it should be a very interesting time

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increment where we're planning to have

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three soyuz docked simultaneously which

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will be a unique experience for karen

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and the rest of her crew to participate

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in but they're all prepared and they're

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looking forward to the challenge

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you're the head of the astronaut center

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but you're also a former astronaut so

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what does it feel to be here now on the

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launch pad yeah it's of course always a

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great pleasure to be here on the launch

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launch pad it means that we have one of

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our european astronauts from the esa

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astronaut corps flying to space luca

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parmitano in this case from italy is

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going to launch from this path in two

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days it's always an exciting moment and

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we are looking forward to a great

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mission those missions long duration

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mission and you've been part of one are

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very important for example what do they

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represent first

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the long duration missions are very

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important for esa of course we do a lot

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of science during those long duration

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missions but we also build up a lot of

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the expertise of the european astronaut

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core it's really an example of our

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participation in the international space

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station we can show it to the whole

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world how we

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continue to work together with our

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international partners and how we

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participate in this great program

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this type of operation when you're a

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national are they difficult to follow or

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is it something that you've been waiting

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for and that maybe you're missing

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yourself now yeah as an astronaut of

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course you always have a dual feeling

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when you stand here it's great to see it

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but you remember your own time of course

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i would prefer to go back into the

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rocket and to fly to space myself but

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now it's the time for our young

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generation of astronauts to fly to

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get expertise in human space flight luco

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is the first of the new core to fly it

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will be great for him but we have many