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station this is houston are you ready

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houston station we're ready for the

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douglas intermediate elementary school

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this is mission control houston please

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station this is kelly graveson at

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douglas intermediate elementary school

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hi kelly loud and clear welcome to the

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international space station in the

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expedition 36 crew we're glad to be with

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thank you so much for the honor of

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speaking with us before i introduce the

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first student i wanted to let you know

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that some of us saw astronaut stephen

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bowen on friday and he said to say hello

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to all of you and that chris you need to

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i'd like to introduce erin with our

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hi my name is iron korea and i'm in

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what shocked you the most about being in

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hi aaron uh that's a fun question to

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think about and uh i'd have to say

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how awkward it is to what to do with

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your hands when you sleep

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when you try to sleep in space you

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really don't know where to put your

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hands and that's a funny feeling to get

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used to there's also some serious

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answers i could give you but on the last

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week of school you probably want to hear

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about how funny it is to deal with our

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and what is your favorite time of day in

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hi ryan actually there are a lot of

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favorite times it's it's fun all the

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time here even when we're working the

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time is enjoyable but i have to say

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it is nice to be able to take the time

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and look down at our earth and take

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pictures

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um it's just something obviously that

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you don't get to do get to do when

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you're on the earth see it from that

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vantage point so of all the favorite

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times uh i think that is my most

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hi i'm jonathan payne my question is for

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what does it feel like when you first

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something very physical like working out

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or running on our treadmill lifting

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weights in our a special machine that

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the rest of the time your body

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floating about is really rested so when

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i wake up in the morning

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i feel completely rested and i'm just

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ready for another day here on the

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hi my name is kylie lafortson and i'm in

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seventh grade my question is for chris

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what is the most difficult task to do in

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i think the most difficult task is the

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one you're doing right then right now

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because anyone any given time up here in

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space we could do something that could

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possibly hurt ourselves or more

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frequently do something

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incorrect to the space station so it's

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it's really hard when you have to focus

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like that all day long

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trying to put all that together and not

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make mistakes is is a job that we work

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focused the whole entire time we're up

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here so that we can do our best and and

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keep the space station in a good healthy

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a good healthy spaceship that it is

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my name is nolan beckwith i'm in sixth

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grade and my question is for karen

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if you had the opportunity would you

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like to live in space for the rest of

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my family here with me

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my husband and my son and my dog i would

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love to have my dog here too

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so it it would be it would be hard to

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live here for the rest of my life

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without the things that i love dearly

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like like those that i mentioned but

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space itself is just it's fantastic

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for many many years and then going back

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to earth where there's gravity your body

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gravity and i think you would have a

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hi my name is hi my name is kylie blake

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is for luca how did you become abigail

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harrison's mentor and what is it like

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having her act as your earthbound

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fact and at the airport

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this young girl that must have been

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about your age at the time

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asked me if i was an astronaut she

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recognized me from a pitcher and i said

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yes i'm an astronaut and she introduced

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herself and she told me that she was

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gave me an interview and i was surprised

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how mature and enthusiastic she was i

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was smitten and so i thought hey you

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know if you keep training like this

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maybe one day you will be an astronaut

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relationship and

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as my earth liaison is i think is a very

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cool thing because she can use the

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language of of of kids her own age when

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american girl and i think it's a great

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way to communicate what uh what dreams

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you get to space you notice the fluid

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shifting around in your body

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fluid and some moves up to your head so

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weight on them like luca was saying your

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muscles kind of can rest for a while so

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stiffness in my leg muscles

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that i really need to

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pay attention to when we do our

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sixth grade my question is for karen

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what are some of the fiscal requirements

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healthy especially when we're spending

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long times a long amount of time up on

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the space station because even though

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we're all trained to take care of small

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early and so being very healthy is one

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of the main requirements but also also

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exercising we exercise over two hours

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every single day to maintain our bone

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strength and our muscle strength and so

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healthy on when you're on the ground on

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orbit and plus just being healthy having

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a healthy body maintains a healthy mind

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eighth grader my question is for luca

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so um just uh going back to what karen

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space you float so all you have to do is

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hardest exercise because it's it's a

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simulate gravity and and stay put when

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a resistive device with that

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weightlessness here we can simulate

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weights and so we can lift weights we

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half months and and counting up till my

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space now what do we do on the ground we

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we train for for our own missions or we

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work in a supporting role for other

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missions that are going on either

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mission control or helping with uh

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equipment or meetings and that sort of

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thing and then and then outreach and get

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area and i'll go to schools just like

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yours so those are some of the things we

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do but in all honesty it's uh we really

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really cherish the times that we can be

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karen how do you wash your long hair in

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and uh and then scrub a little more and

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take a dry towel

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hi my name is natalie fenna i'm in the

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sixth grade my question is for luca

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when you were younger were you

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interested in science technology

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engineering and math or did you find

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so i thought you were going to ask me

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how i shampoo my hair but

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but i guess that that's not very

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interesting

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really like science and technology and

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since i was a kid i as a matter of fact

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i i remember reading comic books where

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the main guy was an inventor and he

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always invented things and i thought

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that that was the coolest thing ever uh

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it was a

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this this kind of wizard uh technician

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so uh that really got me into into

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science as a kid and then

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i actually went to a scientific high

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school which is uh an italian school

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system is is a way to get really

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really close to uh to science even at

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the high school level

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and i just always liked it and of course

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when you talk about science

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science engineering technology all those

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things really go really go really go

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together and and of course math is is

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sort of like the glue that keeps it all

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together so yes the short answer is yes

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i was very interested in in science

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hi my name is daniela damasio i'm in

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sixth grade my question is for chris

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what kind of experiments are you

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well there's several types some that are

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are just going on all the time that we

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really don't interact with maybe some of

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those are outside the space station and

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a few inside here as well and there's a

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handful that we uh activate and then

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they run on their own and then a few

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that we are active participants in each

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time the experiment goes and uh an

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example of those are medical experiments

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perhaps with the ultrasound of our

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spines or various other other things

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and then one of one of the ones that

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i've been doing a lot has to do with

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combustion and uh in safety properties

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of different materials and we have just

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off to our left here there's a glove box

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a research glove box where we uh in a

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controlled environment ignite certain

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materials and see how uh how it resists

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to to combustion and and that's really

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been a fun thing for me to do because

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what guy kid person doesn't enjoy uh

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playing with fire in space or on earth

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so that's a lot of fun and then a really

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nice experiment also has been with fluid

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flow and figuring out different shapes

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of containers that can move fluid

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without a pump just by the shape of the

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container those have been really

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interesting experiments for me to

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hello my name

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in seventh grade i have a question for

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karen what is one good thing and one bad

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it's easy to say the good things uh the

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one good thing we get to fly in space

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like chris was talking about earlier

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just being here is absolutely fantastic

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this is an opportunity that very few

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people

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on our planet earth get and we are very

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very fortunate to be some of the some of

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the lucky few

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one of the bad things it requires time

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away

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when our training

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time away from home and your family and

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then obviously now not unlike folks in

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our military that have to spend time

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away from their families

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so i think that would be that would be

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my the the

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least um

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the the worst thing about being an

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hello my name is althea smith i'm an 8th

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grader and my question is for luca how

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much time do you spend on the computer

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i'm not much of a computer geek honestly

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so i only i only picked up the social

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media thing uh in recent years when i

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when i became an astronaut and i thought

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that

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would be wasted

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if i didn't share it with as many people

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as i could and i took it as a personal

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mission to show people that that we are

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normal people uh we are very privileged

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to have a very cool job and so i started

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um i started uh

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being active on the computer in social

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media here in the station we are very

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busy it's it's incredible how time flies

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so we only spend i i can only spend

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about uh half an hour through throughout

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the whole day about half an hour on the

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computer trying to update my my status

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and keep people uh up with what we are

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doing here on the station and to post

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pictures of the earth which is the most

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hi my name is nicole thackeberry i'm in

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seventh grade and this question is for

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chris what is your favorite part about

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hmm let's see

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i think

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just

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getting used to how how lightly you can

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push in and and go places at the when i

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first got here i wanted to push really

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hard uh and feeling like i needed to use

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the same amount of force that i that you

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use on earth to walk somewhere for

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instance and

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as i've been here longer it's really

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been neat to to

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experiment with just how little you can

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push off and go places and just imagine

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if in the room that you're sitting right

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now instead of all of you on your chairs

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in your gymnasium or auditorium

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everyone's floating around and crashing

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into each other in that in that room

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how fun it would be and that's kind of

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how it is up here we have crashes right

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now we're very calm and coordinated in

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front of you but when the camera's off

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we come crashing in and and have to get

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used to traveling up here in zero

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gravity so so that's the most uh fun

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hi my name is megan briggs i'm in eighth

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grade and my question is for karen since

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you and your husband are both astronauts

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do you think that your son jack would

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want to be an astronaut too and would

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well jack right now is three years old

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so it's really hard to say what he's

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going to end up doing we're getting

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indications that he is technically

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minded um to some degree but that's kind

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of hard to tell by a three-year-old but

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my hope for him is that he finds

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something that he's passionate about

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whatever it is whether it be space or

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something else space to him might become

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such an ordinary thing that that he

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doesn't find it the same you know the

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same passion about it that i did when i

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was a kid so i just my like i said my

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hope for him is that he finds something

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that he's passionate about and that he

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finds the drive to work hard at it and

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we'll be there to help him as much as we

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this is kelly graveson again i just

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wanted to thank you so much for taking

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time out of your busy and important

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schedules to talk to us chris or karen

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or luca we'd love to have you come visit

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us in douglas anytime we'll set it up

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and we wish you luck as you continue

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your mission and we look forward to your

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thank you very much kelly and everybody

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there in douglas we really appreciate it

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and uh you guys have a fantastic summer

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congratulations on finishing the school

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year bye-bye

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station this is houston acr thank you

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that concludes the event

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thank you douglas intermediate

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elementary school station we are now