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station this is houston are you ready

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we're ready for the event houston

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wcco tv this is mission control houston

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station this is mike binkley with wcco

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hi mike welcome to the international

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space station we hear you loud and clear

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wonderful great to see you both and uh

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chris cassidy i hope you understand

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we're very proud of our native

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minnesotans so many of my questions

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today will relate to uh karen nyberg and

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i got the thumbs up from you okay so

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well let's start with a question to you

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uh chris cassidy how is she doing up

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there what does she bring to this team

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well first and foremost she brings hair

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luca and i apparently we don't have any

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and she has an abundance of it so

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so we're very welcome uh to plenty of

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hair on board and her uh her sense of

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humor and feminine touch is a nice

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welcome thing up here as well but we're

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having a great time and it's so uh it

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was nice for me to get uh companions

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back up here it was a period of two

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weeks uh by myself for a little bit

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which was fun but i was really happy to

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all right dr nyberg i know that i've

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followed you on twitter and i see you do

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get questions about the hair uh so let's

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let's just address that right now it

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looks like you have it tied back just a

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little bit but sometimes you just let it

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yeah sometimes anybody who wears a

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ponytail for a long time knows that it

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starts to pull on your head and not feel

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very comfortable but

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so i let it out once in a while and when

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i wash it i like to let it dry out but

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when i'm working it's usually best to

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all right so let's talk about some of

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the pictures that you've been posting on

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twitter you've given us some amazing

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views i want to talk about one photo in

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particular windows to the world describe

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your view from the international space

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well i think that that picture kind of

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describes it pretty well um although

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pictures never never quite show exactly

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what it looks like anybody who's been

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backpacking and gone up in the mountains

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the higher you get and you look out and

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you just think it's so i mean it's

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unbelievable views and then you take a

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picture and when you show it to other

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people and try and describe it it just

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never looks quite as beautiful

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you know so we have the cupola which we

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get you know the 360 degree view

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and we also have a couple other windows

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we can look at out

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of the port side on the gym and then

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also the russian segment so we have a

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lot of opportunities and places we can

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i also want to ask about the sunset view

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yeah we get 16 sunsets a day today or

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recently actually the way our orbit is

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flying we're kind of flying along the

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terminator a lot and so we see almost a

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perpetual sunrise or sunset um

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so we that's mostly what we've been

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i saw a great picture of you having

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breakfast uh out of a bag your coffee

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and uh and what was it a scone that you

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yeah that was a cinnamon scone that was

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on sunday morning and it was uh

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it was a nice relaxing get out of bed

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and have have my coffee and i felt like

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i was at a coffee house at home

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i want to ask about your family too i

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i've read i know that you had at least

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one video conference with them so far i

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know you have a young child

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is it true that you're actually reading

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stories from space to him and what is

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that like for a child maybe to him that

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seems perfectly normal but to us that

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yeah i actually recorded some stories

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before i left for him but i've been

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making a quick little video for him

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every day about 20 seconds long and

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sending it down and i i think it is a

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little normal for him and doesn't get

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him in fact i just i had a doll or a

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stuffed animal that i had showed him i

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sent a video down

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yesterday and evidently when he watched

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it the first thing he kind of started to

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cry and said i want that one so it

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wasn't as impressive

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that it was in space as i was hoping it

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all right well i want you to pass the

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mic back over to chris cassidy i want to

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ask about the work day uh how many hours

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a day are you actually working and what

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type of experiments are you doing at

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yeah that's a that's a good question we

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we generally our work day is essentially

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from about 7 30 in the morning to 7 30

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at night but during that time we have a

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break for for lunch and uh and to

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exercise exercise is an important part

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so i would say it's probably around

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eight and a half hours of actual work

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just like down

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the experiments are vast there's some

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that that are just

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kind of going on without us and we

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really don't have much interaction with

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them there's some that we're involved

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with setting them up and once we set the

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experiment up it continues and goes on

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and there's several that we are the

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subjects for um such as eating certain

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foods which luca is doing this these

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four days right now he's eating certain

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foods and then he'll have some some

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sample blood and urine samples to see

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how his body's responding to the

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different levels of

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protein and potassium in his diet as

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well as some ultrasounds that we'll be

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doing

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in the near future on on our spines and

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actually we have eye eye exams this this

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week ocular health and that sort of

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i personally was involved with some some

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fire experiments everybody likes to burn

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things don't worry it's really safe

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there's a small little place where we do

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that so those are types of things we're

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doing on space station and the work day

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much like a work day and at home

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and so with these experiments i mean how

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will this advance science what what will

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we learn at the end of your period up

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there at the iss with these experiments

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doing well one one of the most exciting

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things for me that i'm personally

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involved in on this

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is is the use of ultrasound in

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applications that would normally be used

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and that has applications with for for

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remote regions or countries that aren't

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as fortunate as ours where you can just

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pack in a briefcase size uh ultrasound

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machine and and and and give people the

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treatment and health care that that

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would be available in larger cities and

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that sort of thing and we're practicing

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and doing that and validating that up

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here in zrg um also

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the importance of keeping your bones

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healthy late in life and and the the

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the exercise programs in the food

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regimes that we're doing are helping uh

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solve that problem too so those are

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things that i think are very applicable

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to to people on earth and and rewarding

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for us to be a part of

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i want to try and squeeze in a couple

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more questions for karen first of all we

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saw the pictures of what do you call

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them fat quarters floating fat quarters

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you're going to be doing some knitting

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actually i i don't knit my mom does i

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never took up that hobby but quilting

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we have spare time on the weekends just

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like you do at home we do saturdays

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spend some time house cleaning

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housekeeping and then after that some

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spare time and sunday is mostly a day

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just to do whatever you want read a book

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draw play the piano

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anything anything like that and i

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figured that's one of my favorite

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hobbies on earth so i could just as well

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and i loved the picture that you posted

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on on twitter of a poster that you had

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pardon me a poster that you had in your

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room growing up in vining can you talk

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to me about that and and how you went

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from binding minnesota to the

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that's right my sister's just reminded