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station this is houston are you ready

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and houston station we are ready for the

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cascade community schools this is

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mission control houston please call

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station for a voice check

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station this is trend fam with cascade

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community school students how do you

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good afternoon we hear you loud and

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loud and clear thank you

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i'm honored to have the opportunity to

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welcome all of you to the shoreline

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school district cascade k community

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school thank you to nasa oh astronauts

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chris cassidy and luca for mitano future

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of flight shoreline school district and

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everyone for making today's event

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we now move to the main part of our

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my my name is alden my question is for

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when an astronaut is outside the space

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station how does he get back into the

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space station and how do you prepare

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oh that's a fun question for me to

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answer for you today because we happen

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to be inside the airlock of the

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international space station right here

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with a spacesuit on either side of us

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that we're going to wear in just a

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handful of weeks in july when luca and i

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and uh the way much like in the very

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want you to just open the front door and

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walk outside you might have a little mud

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room or something where you go into

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your warm clothes and then step out to

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the cold winter that's how we do it on a

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space station we'll put on our

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spacesuits go into our airlock close a

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small hatch right behind the two of us

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right now and then open a hatch to go

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outside and we leave that outside hatch

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open during the whole six hours while we

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same very same door and then reverse the

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process to come back to right to where

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we're standing right here right now and

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when we compare prepare to go home

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is the only thing we can do is uh

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cherish the moments we have here because

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it's gonna be over in the blink of an

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eye we work out all the time to stay fit

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physically but mentally it's hard to

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prepare to go home because it's such a

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my name is cece and

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my question is for luca how does the

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space station work and what is the main

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station this is houston acr we're not

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can you hear me now

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and break we can't hear your microphone

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negative copy

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and houston can you hear us now

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mic negative copy

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and station this is houston acr we're

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not copying your mic um can we please

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hello how do you hear me now

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loud and clear okay so i was just about

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the space station is very very big so in

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field and that's how it works we have

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that that provides enough electricity

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station we we use new technology that

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that is being invented right now so that

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of vastness can fly further away into

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exploration as i said all these things

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science that we are discovering right

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what are some of the experiments you

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away is an experiment called spheres

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soccer ball sized satellite that

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maneuvers around with inside inside the

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space station and there we have three of

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them and they can maneuver relative to

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what's going to happen this summer are

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students just like you guys are

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participating in writing some of the

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computer code that will be used for

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different obstacle avoidance and certain

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types of um programs that are that these

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spheres will run to have a competition

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amongst different types of schools so

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until now uh most of these payments i've

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done have been uh on myself so i have

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objects of the payment

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physiology we try to figure out what

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what's happening to uh to our body and

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our our eyesight changes because of the

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different environment and uh just last

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colleagues we were

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scanning uh the eyes and uh and doing

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the shape changes how our our uh

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perception changes and and and then in

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the future we will be able maybe to

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room that you're talking to me from

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is so much fun to float around here and

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the rooms that we have and float up to

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the window and look down at our

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wonderful planet it's just a thrill and

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we couldn't really hear that question

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my name is ami

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we have uh astronauts come up for what

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when you first arrive here your body

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ball of water and that reminds me that

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stuffed up face and when you when i saw

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congratulate you on your name that's a

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station because here

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we all do everything so

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the tools that we use for for an eva so

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to fix a couple of things grab its

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payments and bring them back in prepare

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module but when we are inside we are all

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space plumbers we all cook our own food

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ground people are so important to us

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i think you were asking about food and

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it's just so happy you are talking to

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the two right guys to talk about food

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karen will attest the two of us can eat

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a lot of food each day and we do our

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part to make sure that we don't have too

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much food on the space station i love

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all the food here my favorite happens to

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be seafood gumbo

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and my and my favorite drink is a is a

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mango peach smoothie actually they're

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very tasty we have so we have a whole

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selection of food and snacks

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and luke is demonstrating how we drink

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my name is nathan

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and my question is for luca

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do you feel that it is worth the risk to

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that's a great question so um every

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every exploration and times is some sort

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of risk that is that there's no doubt

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500 years ago when columbus uh sailed on

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his on his three little ships across the

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atlantic covered

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what became america he faced a lot of

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risks and so all explorers do

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but the thing is um

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first of all it's in our nature it's the

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nature of the human the human being to

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to question what he knows and and to

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always look for what he doesn't know

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so it's it's just something in our dna

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that we have to do and the second thing

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is that thanks to all the studies and

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the fantastic engineers on the ground

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the work uh for us every day and with us

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they make something very hard look

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simple but

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more than that

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they take that risk and minimize it to

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the point that it's actually it's

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actually safer to buy on the space

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station be driving downtown in an

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italian city

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where where i mean we hear we have rules

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and and uh and all kind of safety

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aspects that keep us safe

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so

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i would definitely say yes there is a

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risk but it's certainly worth taking the

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risk to

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forward go forward in our nature and

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forward our restoration

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hi my name is elijah and my question is

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for chris what aspects of life and space

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are difficult and what

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well that's an interesting question i

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would say

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the daily part that's difficult is

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managing all of the things we have to do

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the ground team

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puts a schedule for us each day and it's

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broken down into as small slivers as

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five minutes and and to fit that all

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into one day is hard for them and it's

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sometimes challenging for us to manage

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it all and make sure we complete all of

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the objectives for the day that's

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probably the daily hardest thing the

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other hardest thing or other hard thing

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um

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is to always be concentrating and

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realize that at any time we could do

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something that could be bad for the

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space station or bad for ourselves or

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our crewmates those two things combined

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are always in the back of our heads as

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we make our way through the day even on

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a normal a normal day and the things

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that are are easy to do is just enjoy

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being up here we're all we're here for

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six months which sounds like a long time

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but i've been an astronaut for almost um

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10 years nine years or so and uh and

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this is the only time i'll be up here

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for uh so far for these for

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extended period of time so we really

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want to take advantage of it and just

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enjoying the moment is something that's

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very easy to do every day

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my name is andrew and my question is for

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luca how does the space station benefit

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well it kind of goes back to uh

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the question that you asked me before

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about what is the main purpose of the

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space station so

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uh earlier i said

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science exploration and technology well

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uh two of those things actually can be

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you can be put

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direct on the ground uh as we as we are

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speaking i'll tell you i'll give you an

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example there is a study going on right

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now in the space station one of the

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experiments that my crew mature and i

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are doing it's called procaine and it's

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a special diet

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that studies a balance between proteins

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and potassium in our body to prevent

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loss of calcium from our bones

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what happens is that here on the space

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tension because of the lack of weight

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uh we we have a very fast onset of

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osteoporosis which is exactly that it's

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the loss of calcium from the bones but

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that doesn't happen only in states a lot

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of people on earth are affected by

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osteoporosis

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so imagine if

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thanks to the results of this study we

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can go back to earth and tell people

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look you don't have to take medicines

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you don't have to undergo special

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medical

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operations but you can just follow a

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very simple diet and that will keep you

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keep up keep osteoporosis away and keep

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your bones and your body healthy so uh

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covers the discoveries that we do here

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on the station the science and the

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technology that we that we are inventing

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they actually have a lot of protection

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um hi my name is nicholas and my

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question is for chris

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what were some of your fears about going

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into space and how did you overcome

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well nicholas

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i at one time heard a famous astronaut

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named john young

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say this and i couldn't agree with him

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more and that is if on launch day

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you don't have a little bit of fear then

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you don't understand what's happening

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behind you and uh and i think that's

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really well said now

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i'll caveat that with we have a lot of

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really smart people putting a lot of

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effort into making the program as safe

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as it can be but each and every one of

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us has on launch day as we climb into

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the rocket we always appreciate the

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amount of energy and power that we're

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sitting on top of as we blast off in

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into space

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so that's one thing that we we

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roll over in our minds but in the end of

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the day when we strap in and put the

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seat belts to click and uh and wait for

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that countdown clock to go to zero we're

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there to do a job and we're there to do

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it as best as we can and uh and i think

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for all of us will agree that

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when it time comes to launch it's all

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about getting here doing responding to

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any problems that arise and then getting

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my name is emeline my question is for

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what

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oh that's a that's a very good question

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again

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you guys have all the all very good

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questions so again

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i've only only been here for two weeks

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so that's like going camping and you

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know you can go camping and you don't

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miss anything for about two weeks so the

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time to miss things still uh really

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hasn't come however i will tell you that

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i am italian

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and one thing that italian really really

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like is coffee

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now i have i have adjusted all kinds of

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different coffees cappuccinos

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long coffee short coffees

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sure wish it was an espresso machine

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here on the station like we used to make

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a nice short espresso cup wake me up in

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the morning and give me a job of energy

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that's that's something that i could

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certainly use and it will make everybody

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happy because it would be would wake me

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up instead of

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instead of being half asleep for the

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first half of the day

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but other than that

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um i would say that i really miss my

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family and my daughters but when i think

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about that i also have to think about

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all my my colleagues in the in the air

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force that are deployed somewhere else

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and those guys are deployed for for

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months and months away from their

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families and certainly they don't get to

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enjoy

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my name is abigail and my question is

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for chris

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what kind of training did you need to be

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abigail that's a great question um

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so

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it generally takes about five years or

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so from the time you become an astronaut

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until you are really going to space so

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that's about same amount of time as when

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you enter kindergarten until you

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graduate elementary school and that's

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the amount of training we go through and

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the first two years of that is largely

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just learning the basics about

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life in space and how do you do business

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to get here live safely and come home

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and then the next few years are really

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specific training for the exact mission

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that you're going to be on luca and i

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were training for two and a half years

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before we arrived here on space station

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me a couple months ago and luca uh just

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a few weeks ago

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and

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then maybe if things work out we might

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get to come again in a few years down

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the road three four five six however

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many years it is but it's a long process

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there's a lot to learn and the main

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thing we need to have is a core

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fundamental understanding of how to

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safely operate the space station and

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respond to any emergencies and that's

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why it takes so long the other part to

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the to the

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length of training is it's an

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international space station which means

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we travel to all different countries

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that are partners on the space station

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and train in those locations on the

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systems that those countries provide to

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the space station so it's a great deal

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of school and uh but it's one that's

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thank you astronauts chris and luca for

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your time we really enjoyed learning

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station to all of you in washington

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state we enjoy being with you have a

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station this is houston acr thank you

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that concludes our event

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thank you cast cape community school