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hi thanks for joining us here in the

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control room i'm here with

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capcom hal getzelman and we are excited

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hi i'm victoria and my question today is

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what jobs and duties do you perform in

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so i'm a capsule communicator and my job

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is to talk to the crew on orbit and what

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i do is i listen to all the

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conversations that the experts are

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having here on the ground and then i

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work together with the flight director

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and then explain it to the crew on orbit

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exactly what's going on and try to

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understand what they need to know and

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give that information in a way that's

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what tests are they performing on the

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international space station for sending

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people to mars

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well we're performing a lot of

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activities on board and a lot of those

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will help us learn the skills and

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and test the equipment that we'll need

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a good example is

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exposure to radiation our crews carry

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around dosimeters little devices that

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measure their radiation exposure and we

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track that throughout the mission

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also we have equipment on board that

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removes carbon dioxide

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we have equipment that takes water and

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separates it into hydrogen and oxygen so

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the crew will have something to breathe

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obviously put on board provisions of

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clothing that they would of course need

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for their trip to mars so we are

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learning to live for uh six months at a

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time we're going to have one mission in

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the near future for one year

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on orbit and of course as you might

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suspect to go to mars is going to take

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us anywhere from a year to two and a

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half years a round trip so we need to

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get quite a bit of experience in this

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in this

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hi my name is my question today is how

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much does it cost to send a machine into

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space

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well it

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costs a lot of money uh when the space

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shuttle program was going on it was

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about four and a half billion dollars a

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year uh program itself

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but everything costs uh an extraordinary

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amount of money

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because we don't have the ability to go

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the the corner hardware store to get

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spare parts and so all of our equipment

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has to go through rigorous uh design and

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testing and uh a lot of people get

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involved with that and so therefore it's

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very expensive so

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um you're talking millions and billions

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of dollars to do things that uh on earth

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would cost much less but because we're

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in space they do cost a considerable

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amount of money

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but we should also add that we learn a

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lot from doing that and there's a lot of

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technologies that we use on earth in our

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everyday lives that have come from that

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investment in the things that we're

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developing for spaceflight

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absolutely a lot of the technologies of

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mineral miniaturization of taking very

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large computers and shrinking them down

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to where we see today that effort was

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all begun because we needed computers

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that were small enough to fit in our

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spacecraft to go to the moon

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and things like the cell phones that

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they use smartphones and even some of

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the sports equipment that probably some

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of you kids use have all sometimes have

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all right so

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my name is jack and i was wondering

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what do you do for communication systems

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um with um permission tool too with the

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iss would you do if they fail in that

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okay so it's very important to us that

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we can communicate with the crew and we

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do that several different ways one way

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is of course voice communications where

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we are just talking back and forth

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another very important way is video

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where we actually see the crew and see

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what they're doing and we can observe

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where they're at in a particular like an

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extra vehicular activity a space walk

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and also we get a lot of telemetry data

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that's coming down from the space

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so we can see the status of systems and

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all that all that communication is very

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important to us and so we have quite a

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bit of redundancy in the system so we

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have two separate strings of equipment

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for the voice we recently upgraded the

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communication system to allow voice

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a different frequency band than what we

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were using before so we actually have

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communications we can talk to the crew

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system of vhf communications

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redundancy so if one system should fail

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we can continue to talk to the crew

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in sort of a reduced effective way and

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hello my name is cherry and my question

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what happens if an asteroid comes like

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shooting towards international space

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an asteroid that came into the

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and so it's getting a lot of thought

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we're able to track

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most large objects that are in orbit

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around the earth and any time

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that one of those knowned items

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is going to cl pass close to the space

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station we try to move the space station

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out of the way in other words a day or

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two prior we'll adjust the orbit by

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usually boosting it out of the way

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passes well clear now asteroids are a

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because they are not as well known and

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as well predicted but what if we did

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know one was coming close we could take

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actions to

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maneuver the space station out of the

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hi my name is ally and my question is

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how are the satellites powered so long

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without having any pores

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stability in that system they also have

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batteries and so the solar panels

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that's converted sunlight and charge up

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satellites go in the shade of the earth

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the shade so we use the battery power

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isotope that is fairly hot and they use

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of your question is we don't directly

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today control any satellites from the

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space station we have launched a few

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space station and then just they're

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passive they just orbit until they

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hi my name is asha and my question for

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you today is what is your treatment and

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how many years does it give you become

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well um it starts way back when right

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all of our astronauts are excellent

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students they're excellent learners and

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they excel

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and thrive on learning and accumulating

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they have done that their whole life

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most of our astronauts are in their 30s

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astronauts they're picked from

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a large pool of volunteers

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and we're trying to pick the best

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candidates for those jobs

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test pilots some are doctors some are

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to six years of training uh once they're

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some uh have been around as long as ten

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surprised they have a lot of classroom

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training too so just like you in school

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with book studying trying to learn the

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systems the space station systems how

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how all the different

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some of it's similar to what you do and

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which is kind of like a pretend space

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station and that's where they're

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rehearsing the procedures and learning

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how to work with the team

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other thoughts hell

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no that's uh that's quite true um and

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training since our astronauts are

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mission control in moscow often

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they need a to be competent russian

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today is since all space shuttles have

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been decommissioned how do you get

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supplies food and people of the space

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resupply cargo ships we have the

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progress which is a russian

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cargo vehicle will be coming up this

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fall sometime and also we have the htv

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which is a japanese cargo vehicle so we

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have several cargo vehicles available to

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us to bring up that food and water now

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that the space shuttle is retired our

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only vehicle to actually bring the crew

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up is a russian-built vehicle called the

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soyuz it carries a crew of three and

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we're hoping with commercial crew and

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with our orion program to develop a new

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launch vehicle

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an american-built vehicle that can also

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hi i'm annie um what has been the most

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memorable or exciting moment for you to

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in the control center

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well for me personally um

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you know we have uh sort of busy times

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and we have times that are not quite so

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busy so

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i think of myself the most exciting time

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for me was when we brought up node 3

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and the cupola

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and we attached that to the

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international space station that was the

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last major um

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item that was going to be attached to

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the space station there was a few other

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experiments and a a sort of big closet

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that we brought up later but this was

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the last big module and to be part of

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that mission and see that this face

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space station would

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finally be completed was a very exciting

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moment for me it was kind of like seeing

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the

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first become operational finally finish

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its initial construction and be cleared

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operational so that was a very exciting

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time for me

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yeah i'm sure that michael has told you

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guys the space station is as big as a

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football field it's really really huge

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and hard to imagine in space but it had

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to be built

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piece by piece with different modules

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being flown up some of those modules

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were built in other countries and they

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were all brought up there individually

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and pieced together so

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for people like hal who've worked on it

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for a long time and been a part of it to

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see it being built over years it was

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probably a big deal to see it come

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together and the cupola of course is a

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special piece because it has all the

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windows so that's a favorite spot for

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the astronauts on the space station

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where they go and and literally

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it's almost like going into a bay window

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where there's windows on every surface

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and they can look out and just see a

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wide wide

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panoramic view of the earth so it's a

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yeah i think uh

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back one of the books that they had us

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read when we were young was uh jules

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verne 20 000 leagues under the sea

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and his submarine had a big picture

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window in the front of the submarine and

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and so the cupola is kind of this big

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window that you get to look out at the

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earth below

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and uh i've had crew members tell me

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that uh it has such an impact on them

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that it actually brings them to tears to

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hi my name is jordan and my question is

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what is everyday life in the command

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center and the space station

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well every day is a little different as

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you might imagine

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but let me give you a thumbnail uh

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sketch of what it's like

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we operate on greenwich mean time and

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the crew gets up at about six o'clock

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greenwich mean time

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uh for us that's about

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one o'clock or midnight here in houston

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so we bring in a control team there's

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three control teams we each work about

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eight hour shifts

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and hand over to the next shift the crew

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gets up uh you know does their normal

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things awaken up and getting dressed and

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having breakfast and all that we talk to

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them first thing in the morning kind of

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tell them what's going on and and any uh

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important developments that may have

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happened while they were sleeping and

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then they start into their uh routine um

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we work really hard to keep the crew

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busy and we have them assigned tasks uh

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a basically a flow chart

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of the activities for the day and the

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crew

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works through those

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we help them with that

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we take actions on the ground to maybe

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save some equipment turn it off before

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they change out a part or something like

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that and they work through till about

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lunchtime while this is going on the

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crew actually has about two and a half

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hours of exercise during the day they do

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half of their exercise would be aerobic

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that's like running or pedaling a

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bicycle the other half is strength

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training and they do that on our

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resistive exercise device and so they

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they work that into their schedule after

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lunch they have more activities

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around about 3 30 in the afternoon we

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kind of wrap up the the work day for the

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crew

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and

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then they have a

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about an hour and a half to kind of have

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supper get settled down

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take care of their own

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sort of interests and then they go to

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bed for eight hours and get up and do it

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again

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on the weekends

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saturday morning they do a lot of house

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cleaning vacuuming

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swabbing down areas of the of the uh the

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uh the hull

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and uh inspecting things um the rest of

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the

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saturday is usually uh free time for

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what they want to do

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sunday uh

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again is another uh kind of off day for

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them where they can spend some of their

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own time and then we talk to them sunday

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night and give them uh some updates on

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what will be happening the following

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week so that's kind of a typical day um

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you know there are atypical days where

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we're doing space walks or we're having

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visited vehicles come

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and they'll reach out and grab them and

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pull them in so those are kind of the

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special days but

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hi my name is hazel and how often do the

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astronauts support iss reach out and get

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well currently our uh average duration

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of the crew is about six months you know

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a few days less a few days more

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depending on a few factors

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we will have a crew coming up

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uh next year that will be up for a full

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year and that's just part of our uh data

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gathering to see the effects on the crew

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uh being in waitlist for a full year but

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have you ever had an emergency on before

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well that's a good question because as

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you might imagine we have very well

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developed procedures and actions and we

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practice quite a bit for those

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occurrences

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we've had quite a few false alarms in

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other words a smoke detector

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you know will go off and we'll analyze

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the condition and decide that it was a

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faulty sensor or something like that

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we've also had what we thought was a

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contaminated atmosphere

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which was simply baking out of a

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absorbing material that had some gunk in

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it so to speak

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that smelled bad but it turned out it

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was not really harmful to the crew so no

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i've not actually been on when we've had

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a actual emergency

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and so far we haven't had any true

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hi my name is joe and my question is

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what inspired you to do your job and

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okay well when i was

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in junior high school

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the first apollo mission

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was going to the moon and it was apollo

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8 and they flew a

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racetrack around the moon they didn't

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actually land but they just flew around

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the moon and they did that

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on

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christmas eve

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and so i can remember

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being with my family

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at a christmas party at night

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watching that on tv

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and hearing from

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astronauts talking from the far side of

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the moon

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about their experiencing and reading

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from the bible

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and i thought boy that's something i'd

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really like to do

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and

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around

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preparing myself

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studying taking the courses

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learning as much as i could

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so someday i could be picked i never was

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picked but i i really enjoy working in

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hi my name

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is how hard is the training to work at

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mission control

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what schools

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did you have to go to and what was your

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well fortunate for for me

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i had a lot of experience

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in other jobs

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i was a fighter pilot in the united

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states air force for 20 years

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so

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i i was well prepared for the job now a

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lot of our folks who come and work in

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mission control are right out of college

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and so

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um

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it's a challenge

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to

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learn the precision of the business in

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other words

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sloppy work

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doesn't count for much here

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you don't get partial credit

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for

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making a good try what we really want is

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results and we want people who are

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really

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focused on the important things of the

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job

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so in that sense

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if you're well prepared it's not that

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difficult

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but it is a challenging program there's

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a lot of information to learn a lot of

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facts and figures that you must be uh

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comfortable with

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so it is a challenge for most of our

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hi my name is kendall

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my question is communication hanging so

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far away is it always easy to connect

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well this is an excellent question and

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uh i just want to say that like right

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now we're having a period of time where

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the sun is

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at a very high angle over the station

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and we're having some thermal problems

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with our ku antenna big dish antenna

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that you'd like to see

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out on the outside of your house and

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that antenna is getting too cold so we

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can't use it right now so we've not

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we're not able to get video down and

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data up to the crew so that's kind of a

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00:24:04,390 --> 00:24:01,440
glitch um every now and then we'll have

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the com will break up and we have to

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say things twice and all that but

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normally our communications is very

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clear and very reliable but from time to

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all right and i understand that's our

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last question but we want to thank you

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00:24:23,269 --> 00:24:22,000
guys again for taking the time to ask

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some questions and learn a little bit

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more about the space station and thank

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hal for uh joining us thanks guys hey

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thanks very much i'm sorry for the folks