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station houston are you ready for the

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and i didn't get calm on that one uh

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karen could you check the event or check

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nothing there

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stand by

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we're ready for the event uh it looks

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okay we're gonna flex push to talk on

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space to ground two for karen and uh and

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chris and uh just checking again are you

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you sure are houston we're ready for the

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and kansas cosmosphere this is mission

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control houston please call station for

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this is the kansas cosmosphere in

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hutchinson kansas calling the

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international space station

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you loud and clear from the

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international space station to kansas

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well welcome to the cosmosphere and

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thank you for joining us

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we have a group of students with

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chase bowman

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well chris

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what are your favorite earth features to

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the oceans and and you see the pattern

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of sediment and things like this that

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forms the river deltas so i find that

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what are some adjustments that your body

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the fluid shifts in our body because

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gravity isn't pulling it down our faces

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get kind of puffed up and we also notice

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that we have to go to the bathroom quite

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another thing our bodies what our bodies

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want to do is since we don't really use

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our bodies our bones want to degrade so

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to keep them strong so that's why we do

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special exercises and running on a

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treadmill and all of that um and also

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our hearts our hearts don't have to work

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as hard and so they want to adapt zero

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for chris how do you clean the

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move all around and ultimately get

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filters and that's what happens with all

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the dust karen's hair for example i

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things so we need to wipe down

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what are your favorite foods to eat in

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cereals that we hydrate granola and

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what what do you miss most about life on

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chip cookies and brownies and those sort

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stuff like that it's just not quite the

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chocolate chip cookie so that's probably

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my name is caleb i have a question for

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karen do you have a favorite research

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there are so many interesting projects

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that we're working on it would be hard

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of one that we're working on this week

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equipment and we have to do it out of

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necessity because we don't have that

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remote locations or places where they

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are much more compact and do diagnosis

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for chris how is sleeping in space

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different or is how is bathing different

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sensation of a pillow so that takes a

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little bit of getting used to but it's

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feeling that you're out of control

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bag or cross your arms

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meals what do you do with your arms when

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my name is emma and my question is for

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conference with all of the space centers

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around the world at about 7 or 7 30 and

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various science experiments we do

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those people that we care about and

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equipment it has a treadmill it has a um

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my name is jackson this question is for

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bionci laboratory different from the

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can't see and in the pool the lights are

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always on and it's always daytime so

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uh it's difficult to train for that

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night time period so there's a couple

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things that really can get your

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attention when you first

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become a spacewalker but once you settle

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in it's a lot like just being in the

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my name is adelaide and

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the question for karen how much time do

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you have to relax and what

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and what you do

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weekends are mostly the time for

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relaxing we do have evenings where we

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finish up with our work about 7 30 in

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the evening but bedtime is around 10 so

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after we eat dinner and get ourselves

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cleaned up there really isn't all that

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much time for relaxing on saturdays we

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spend about half the day

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and the rest of the day we get to relax

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and then sunday is mostly a downtime

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i spend a lot of the time taking

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pictures reviewing my pictures talking

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to my family

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i brought some other stuff i would like

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to do

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for sewing and write all the hobbies i

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like to do when i'm on the earth but

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that period of time people can watch

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movies can read books there are lots of

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lots and lots of things we can do to

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my name is amari

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and this is the question for chris

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what are the differences between flying

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on the space shuttle and soyuz

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that's a good question really insightful

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so the space

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shuttle

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the ride up i felt um it was very bumpy

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and in loud for the first two minutes

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when the solid rocket motors were firing

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and then it got i thought really smooth

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and sort of quiet

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for the rest of the ride

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under powered flight the soyuz it's such

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a smaller spacecraft you i felt a lot of

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little motions as the

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computers tried to fix any course

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corrections and things like this so you

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i've got a sense of smaller motions a

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lot more in a soyuz than i did in a

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shuttle getting up to the orbit

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the big difference when you get to orbit

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is space the soyuz is very small

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kind of like a volkswagen beetle or mini

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cooper kind of a car compared to a king

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cab pickup truck neither one is right

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more right than the other just different

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types of cars different types of

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spaceships and the training is different

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uh mostly because in the shuttle all of

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it is done

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at in houston and where we live so we're

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home with our with at work a normal

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working day

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and the soyuz

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all the soyuz specific training is done

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in in russia and star city so we spend a

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lot of time

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uh away from houston in russia preparing

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for the soyuz flight

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my name is tess and my question is for

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karen the stars are moon and the planets

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must be very very beautiful from space

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there are quite a few beautiful things

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to look at when you look at our windows

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here the thing that i found the most

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impressive

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watching a sunrise

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because it kind of sneaks up on you you

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look out the window and it's completely

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dark and the next thing you know the

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modules on the space station that you

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can see start lighting up

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and then you start seeing a blue line on

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the edge of the earth that starts and

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sometimes you'll see other colors and it

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just gets bigger and bigger and bigger

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and then the line on the earth where

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it's between the black the blue just

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starts to slowly creep along the earth

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and it's so beautiful it's the way i'm

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describing it doesn't do it justice it's

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even more beautiful than you can

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my name is thaddeus and i have a

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question for chris

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is it confusing for your body to go

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through so many sunrises and sunsets

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you would think it would be but actually

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we turn the lights on in the space

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station when we wake up

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and the same sort of thing you do at

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home you walk around in your pajamas for

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a little while have your breakfast and

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then get dressed for the day we do that

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exact same thing and we and we live our

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day like karen described

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um and sometimes we'll go to the window

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when we have time and if it's daytime we

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look out if it's nighttime we might see

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some cities at night but uh or if we're

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over an ocean there's not much to look

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at

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the window and uh

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and then at the end of our work day when

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it's time for bed we're tired because

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we've done our normal day and we'll go

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and look at the window and again maybe

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it's daylight outside maybe it's dark or

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we watch the sunrise and sunset but to

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our bodies it to me it feels like we

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just lived and worked a normal day and

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it's time for bed and uh i like to sleep

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so when it's when it's 10 o'clock or so

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there's no doubt in my body's mind that

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it's time to go to bed

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so it really it's after a little bit of

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what what i would say is like jet lag

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when you travel a long distance on an

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airplane after you get used to that it's

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my name is jacob and my question is for

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karen

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do previous residents of the space

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actually most people everybody i think

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cleans up pretty well after themselves

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you try and keep it nice for the next

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guys that are coming but they do leave

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some things um when i first got here

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actually i

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didn't have a lot of clothes with me

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because they were all coming on the

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automated transfer vehicle which just

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arrived a couple days ago and uh one of

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the guys had left a pair of uh long legs

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and armed pajamas that i could wear

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which was very very nice

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also some of the folks leave some of

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their

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treats candy

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snacks like that

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there's a library of books people leave

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books here that we can read

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there's a guitar and a piano a keyboard

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that folks can play so so things kind of

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get left through things that

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my name is ivy and this question is for

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chris does any of your scientific

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research

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oh yes it does

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karen described earlier

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the ultrasound project that we're

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working on and when one person is the

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subject the other person

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is the operator of the ultrasound

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machine

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and then some

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experiments that we do involve taking

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blood samples and will help each other

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with drawing each other's blood

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i'm trying to think what else those are

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the the big ones drawing fluid and oh

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and eyes i forgot about eyes there's a

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lot of research about our eyesight and

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we have different types of instruments

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to check our eyes and we'll help each

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other with those things as well so

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there's quite a few

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medical experiments that we help each

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well from for all the people here at the

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cosmosphere we would like to give out a

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big thank you to chris cassidy and karen

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nyberg for visiting with us this morning

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thank you all for joining us we had a

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good time talking with you and hopefully

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uh some of you will decide to uh follow

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dreams and pursue pursue a career in

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space

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station this is houston acr thank you

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thank you kansas cosmosphere station we