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well welcome to a mission control in

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houston my name is pat ryan i'm the

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public affairs officer on the orbit two

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shift here in mission control today and

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we've just finished up our live update

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on the activities on board the

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international space station and uh happy

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to join you and get to tell you more

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about nasa and about the space station

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what's going on i've invited along

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another one of our flight controllers

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who works here uh ken niece is a cronus

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specialist

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and we're going to find out what that is

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after we first find out about you what

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is it your professional background how

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did you end up at nasa okay um well i

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grew up in the philadelphia area

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philadelphia pennsylvania suburbs i was

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always

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proficient at taking things apart to my

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parents dismay they've labeled that

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breaking things but i always wanted to

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see how things worked

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and along the way i

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had was very good at math and sciences

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so i pursued the field of engineering

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when i went into college i went to penn

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state university

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got my graduate

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undergraduate and my graduate degree at

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penn state and

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i got recruited by nasa at one of the

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college fairs career fairs

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i've been working here ever since

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find out as i said we're going to find

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out what a cronus does because i imagine

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that that's one of the first questions

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that we're going to hear we're ready to

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hear what the kids in little rock have

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good morning my name is daniel ray and

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and i have a question for you

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there

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could you name one or two conditions

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that could negatively affect operations

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for the flight control team

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that is a really good question uh there

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are a couple things

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that could negatively affect us down

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the first is

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loss of communications

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one of our main ways to

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figure out how things are going on on

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the space station is via the telemetry

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and data rece receive on the ground and

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by actually talking to the crew if

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we don't have those links

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then we don't have a way to

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talk to the crew to figure out what's

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going on or to

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interact intervene

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from the ground fix anything so it's

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really important for us to try to

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utilize our

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communication time frames as best as we

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another thing that could negatively

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affect affect us is

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a malfunction if something does go wrong

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everything that's scheduled for the day

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the whole day could be wiped out so it

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those are some of the big things that

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affect the ground controllers us here on

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the ground the flight controller team

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and particularly for for you for a

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cronus officer explain what it is what

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systems you guys are charged with

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maintaining as acronis we are in charge

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of those communication pathways so

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the voice

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that commands the data we get from the

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space station

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the video that we get down from the

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space station all the status health and

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status of our systems of our

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payload data our science data comes down

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through the systems that i manage

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so that's what we're in control of

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and and it's a really fun job

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my name is kyle holmes and i'm in the

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eighth grade

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about one with the flight controller

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a very good question um

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part of my discipline were responsible

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for the computers and downlinking those

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logs like you talked about

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we don't we downlink uh detailed data

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crew's personal computers personal

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computers they use to command and

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receive data from the systems we

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downlink that about once every month

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real-time command history data basically

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all the commands that we send from the

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ground we get a log of that and we we

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are constantly saving that so for

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historical purposes and to see what is

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what has happened

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i have two questions i would like to ask

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multiplexer computers located on the

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international spaceship or also known as

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main computers are located all

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throughout the space because there are

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very many of them there are there are

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some of them located inside some are

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outside some are inside the lab module

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in various racks

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some are in end cones

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everywhere and they need to be

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everywhere to do all the jobs that

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they're responsible for and the

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multiplexer demultiplexer computers is

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the level where they are they're not

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that the crew interact with all the time

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these are the computers that any that

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range from uh directly directing uh

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traffic from the sensors and effectors

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for the data we're trying to gather to

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passing it up and interfacing with other

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mod other modules or other international

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interface and shipping that data where

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it needs to be such as the ground or the

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the crew we can even send email through

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it we can ship live video for for the

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crew to use and also bring down payload

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ku band link and the six channels is is

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april time frame we expanded our

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capabilities from four standard

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definition downlinks to six combination

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thank you you're welcome

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hi my name is nicara floyd and i want to

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ask you how many tracking and data relay

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these satellites that we can use

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them so we have the options to use five

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which are located in various

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parts in relation to the earth

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are they studied up for you yeah they

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did they're trying to trying to stump me

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antennas move too has to do with the

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tdrs satellites because you have to

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moving and it all has to be in sync to

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parts of antennas that we can fail over

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transmit about higher amount of data

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hi my name is zachary

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charge of all the monitoring and the

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trajectories of any types of debris or

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objects that could impact the space

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station and they talk to one of their

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called stratcom and there

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those two positions monitor all the time

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whatever is available to see they've got

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lots of radar and satellites that they

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potential asteroids coming now the

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smaller the asteroids the harder it is

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to monitor and the less notice we get

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there and so we have to keep track of of

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even small objects because if they were

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to collide with the station they could

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cause some damage

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yeah you got to understand that all

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those objects have a trajectory and a

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speed of velocity so

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it if we're going in a different

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direction than that it could have a real

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dire effect and we're traveling really

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fast

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hi my name is seventh grade

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have you ever sent a video to space

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have i ever sent a video to space

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i can't say that i have sent a video to

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space

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we ship the astronauts video all the

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time

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me personally know

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we are probably shipping them

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video as we speak right now

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during the crew off duty day we can ship

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them live tv as long as we have that

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that link that we talked about between

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the satellite and the space station

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but no i have never sent video the

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closest i've gotten to sending video is

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sending a picture up to the astronauts

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when my daughter was born in december

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and they were pretty stoked about seeing

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that and they gave me some

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congratulations

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but we do send video to the crew all the

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time as ken says

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they get video that is is training video

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that that helps teach them how to do

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things

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they get video live video from their

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families they get a chance to have

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weekly video conferences with their

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families that usually on the weekends

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they can get video from in this room

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sometimes of events that happen in this

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room that gets sent up to them so uh it

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thank you

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hello my name is sergey williams and the

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question i have for you today is

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what would happen if

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there was a malfunction in the ia

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is internal audio

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system during an emergency

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and you said that during the internal

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audio system during emergency

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yeah

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interesting question so uh

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what would happen during an emergency if

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it would depend on the malfunction of

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the audio system normally during an

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emergency we alert uh

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the crew that there is an emergency if

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they weren't the ones that detected it

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via the tones that are produced by the

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audio system

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to let them know hey there's emergency

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need to take some actions uh if there's

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no emergency

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and they know about it and there's an

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audio malfunction they're trained on the

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responses it's almost ingrained we train

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their emergency response very hard and

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and very often so they'll just go on

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muscle memory they'll go to their

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procedures and they'll just go perform

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the actions

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if we don't have a link if we don't have

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audio with the crew

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hopefully the the failure would be one

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where we still

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have audio with the crew and we're audit

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audited tones but it would impact the

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ability for the team on the ground to be

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able to follow the crew and for the crew

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to be alerted with all their normal

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signatures

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to rely on the data that's still coming

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down but without the ability to talk

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exactly

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okay

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thank you

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my name is isaiah perry and i am in the

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7th grade

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we know that nasa suffered budget cuts

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in the past will promise to be affected

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by those budget cuts

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will kronos be affected by the budget

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cuts um

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probably in some ways

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we've we have already merged with uh

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some

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we

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communication systems and one discipline

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and computer and data systems is another

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discipline we have since merged into

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cronus to combine that i don't foresee

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any additional impacts the budget cuts

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but it's it's too early to tell i think

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i think we're pretty stable

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hello my name is gabriela and my

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question to you is what is the

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what is the machinery you use to send

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important information to iss

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you said the machinery used to point and

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for transmit information i'm not sure

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can you repeat the question

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what is the

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machinery you use

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to send

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important information to iss

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okay

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to transmit and receive information

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that's that's a good question we use

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various pieces of equipment on the

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ground our main interface as a flight

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controller is our linux workstations you

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can kind of see one in the background

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here it has command interfaces and

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data interfaces and interfaces with the

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ground systems so it

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puts together what we want to do it

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sends it off and puts it into the data

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stream and the command stream and at

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some point it

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it adds the audio information from the

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voice channels that we talk to the crew

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and then it gets

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encrypted and combined and shipped up to

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the satellite to shipped over the space

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station and receives it's been received

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by a satellite dish on our

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space station called the

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radio frequency uh

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gimbal rfg

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so

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at that point it brings into s-band

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system gets

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pulled out into uh

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it gets decrypted first

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and then gets pulled out into audio data

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which goes to audio system and uh

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the systems data

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command data that goes into the main

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computer the main computer will then

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simple as that simple as

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my name's christina

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my question is

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how are commands and data sent between

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mcc and iss

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how are commands routed between mcc and

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iss we talked a little bit on the

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previous question but uh the commands

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are we have a set list of commands that

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we can choose from that we've tested in

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various settings and we can choose it on

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our linux workstations and linux

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workstations has an application

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interface with the command system we

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choose a command we

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hit you know basically hit we want to

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send it it gets added to the stream it

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gets combined

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with the audio system

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it gets encrypted so you know only the

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commands we want to send and get

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get onto the space station gets added to

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um

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radio frequency signal it gets embedded

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into that and it gets shipped out by

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white sands to

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the satellite the satellite will then

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relay the command the entire stream over

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to the s-band system and it'll get you

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know pulled out from there and shipped

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along where it needs to go the main

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computer will detect whether or not the

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command is valid and

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send it to where its destination is

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which is part of the header in the

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command field

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and it'll go from there we can ship

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commands to all different parts of the

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space station we can even ship

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information between modules between

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segments and so forth

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and despite the

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tearing those commands apart into the

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pieces so you know they go where they

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need to go i think it's interesting to

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note too is as you said that the path

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that information takes to get from here

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to the station is not a straight line no

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it's not it goes from here to new mexico

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to the satellite to the station

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hello my name is latia polk and

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we know that there are several countries

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working together

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um with the iss we want to know how do

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they work together how do we work

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together

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we there are a lot of countries that

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we're working with with iss right now um

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how we work together is we have lots of

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meetings lots of uh

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a lot of get togethers with the

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with our partners sometimes we talk to

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them over the phone sometimes we talk

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over in mission control

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to them via telephone systems is what's

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called device behind us we can listen to

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dozens of loops at any given time

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and these are patched into

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moscow they're patched into japan

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they're patched into europe

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patched into alabama

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it can be patched almost anywhere so we

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could talk to them real time by those

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methods

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and we have a pretty good relationship

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with our partners

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some partners uh the russians require

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extra translation

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because that

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we speak english they speak russian

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so it requires an extra

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person involved and both teams have sets

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of translators that assist us so we make

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sure we communicate the correct

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information to both sides and the other

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side receives the correct information

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but

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we have a pretty good symbiotic

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relationship between all the countries

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working together and that's as you say

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it's 16 different countries now that are

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involved and

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the the device that you talked about i

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know you can't see it too well on

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television but from this panel right

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here we can punch buttons and through

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the headsets that we're wearing we can

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talk to not only everybody else in this

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room but other people in this building

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and in russia and in germany and in

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japan and this is the same system that

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certain people can talk to those

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astronauts up in space right now right

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okay

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did uh

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did we have some more i know some of you

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had two questions

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do any of you have any additional

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all right if i may i'd like to ask a

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question

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and that is uh

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what different career fields are now

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everyone thinks of nasa they think of

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astronauts and things like that what are

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some of the different career fields

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available at nasa

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well i'm glad you asked that question i

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forgot to tell you my back story i'm

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actually

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i didn't i alluded to it but i'm an

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engineer and i actually worked in the

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field i studied in the field of

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electrical engineering communication

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systems

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there are a lot of engineers here a lot

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of engineers a lot of electrical

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engineers or aerospace engineers that

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work here some uh

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some

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people that work here are pure

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scientists so pure sciences either

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research

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payload type science

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other fields are

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medical fields there's a lot of

574
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medicinal doctor requirements doctors

575
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there are writers there are people who

576
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know about uh

577
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business operations and and

578
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there are people who run the buildings

579
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uh there are all kind of of occupations

580
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who are are needed uh working in nasa

581
00:23:19,029 --> 00:23:17,200
yeah it really takes a whole plethora of

582
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different types and different fields to

583
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work at uh nasa even johnson space

584
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center and it's really diverse

585
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background okay i we have time for one

586
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okay it looks like we we we have

587
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confucia folks okay one question all

588
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right we need to fight come on up i'm

589
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sorry

590
00:23:55,990 --> 00:23:53,750
my question is who designed iss and why

591
00:23:57,909 --> 00:23:56,000
who designed iss and why another good

592
00:23:59,909 --> 00:23:57,919
backstory question though please correct

593
00:24:02,149 --> 00:23:59,919
me if i'm wrong in the short version the

594
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short version is is that uh we were

595
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building a space station called space

596
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station freedom we were planning on one

597
00:24:11,350 --> 00:24:09,120
and moscow or sorry russia had partially

598
00:24:13,590 --> 00:24:11,360
built space station mir ii

599
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and uh europe had proposed a certain

600
00:24:17,909 --> 00:24:15,600
module columbus and we all kind of

601
00:24:20,310 --> 00:24:17,919
decided to pull our resources and and

602
00:24:21,990 --> 00:24:20,320
create an international space station

603
00:24:23,909 --> 00:24:22,000
but uh yeah a lot of people were working

604
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on different things and and it started

605
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to come together as a group back in the

606
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1990s

607
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and i think that's about the time we

608
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have ken i want to thank you for for

609
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joining us here and and some for some

610
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interesting answers and learning about

611
00:24:38,390 --> 00:24:36,080
what's what's going on here and we'll

612
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send it uh we'll send it back to the dln