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cbs this morning this is mission control

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houston please call the station for a

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and this is cbs this morning how do you

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we have you loud and clear from the

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that is so cool

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we're going to begin guys come by

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look at her look at her wedding ring

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okay guys here we go

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breakthroughs and not just on earth

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astronaut karen nyberg blasted off for

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her mission aboard the international

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space station in may she'll be there

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conducting research until november we

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are pleased to have karen nyberg with us

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from about 250 miles above the earth

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good morning to you i'm happy that i can

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we're going to talk to you in a minute

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about some of the science experiments

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you're conducting but first i have to

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say i think you're one cool mom because

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you left a three-year-old son jack at

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how is that being away from your young

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videos and and our support people at

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nasa do the same and so you know there's

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there are people in the military who

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leave their families all the time so

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this is nothing unusual or new

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there's people going through it all of

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karen i i love looking at you in space

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and you have to say we love looking at

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your hair

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standing straight up it's so cool

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yeah it's uh it's it's not too bad to

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take care of every so often velcro

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what exactly are you doing up there

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we have a lot of things going on here uh

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the international space station building

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so our day schedule is some science and

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also we have maintenance of the space

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station just like you would have

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russian space walk to do some work

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days ago and then in a couple weeks uh

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my crewmates chris and luca will go out

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next week so we have a lot of stuff

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karen one of the things that you're

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doing up there you're taking you're

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doing some experiments looking at the

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that's right we actually are looking at

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your bone structure and we found that

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the degradation of bone in astronauts is

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way faster than an elderly woman with

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background because you know whenever you

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go to a high school reunion there's

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always somebody that wins the prize for

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coming the furthest that would certainly

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be you recently at your high school your

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reunion you come from a small town can

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you tell us what it was like growing up

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for you there and your dreams and

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yeah it was great a small town in

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school to go to than a bigger one would

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to be a member of many teams and get a

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well-rounded base that helped me get

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karen this year half of the newest class

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of nasa astronauts are women

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that eventually more women are starting

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first astronaut class many years ago

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test pilots and there weren't any women

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test pilots at the time and so so the

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astronaut by day aspiring quilter

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well right now i'm probably slacking on

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slacking on the rest of it too

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mostly playing astronaut

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different things and it comes back to

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various things they can do at the end of

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son jack son jack sanj sun jack um this

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station this is cnn how do you hear me

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good morning cnn this is station i have

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international space station karen we're

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this morning we've received questions

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guessing eventually that type of thing

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from now will be but that type of thing

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floyd moore aged five and campbell of

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az challenger both asking the same

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question what is it like to sleep in

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space and have you ever floated out of

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it's actually quite comfortable sleeping

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that we hang from the wall and the first

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couple weeks when i was here it was very

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important to me to feel like i was

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almost laying on something and i would

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with my legs up like this

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sideways in the sleeping bag so i felt

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pressure along my back from one side of

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the sleeping bag and i felt pressure on

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my legs from the other side and it felt

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good because it stretched my back and it

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made me feel like i was actually lying

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in a bed now i've become a little more

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adapted to it and i can just float there

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and know i've never floated out of the

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question from me have you given up

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now sometimes i wear my hair out

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sometimes i tie it up i try to

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when i'm working in close quarters with

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other people i try to keep it to keep it

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the main goal is to keep it out of other

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under control at women in the air asks

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which women astronauts have influenced

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you and did you meet any of them as an

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yes when i was in high school when i was

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certain that being an astronaut is what

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my goal was um it was a very important

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time when sally ride was making her

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she really impacted me and also just

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looking back i did some research on to

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valentina tereshkova when i was in high

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school because she was the first female

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to fly in space and i actually did meet

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her last year for a brief moment before

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traveling to baikonur as a backup for

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one of the missions and it was just

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fantastic opportunity to get to meet her

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i never did meet sally ride

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i met her sister after her passing but

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um it would have been fantastic to meet

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her too but i think those two kind of

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the firsts those names kind of stick in

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your head and i think they really become

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fantastic

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at n medio s asks do you think there is

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intelligent life in space besides the

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maybe we could beg to question that one

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as well um

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i i don't know i don't think i'm uh i

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don't think i'm smart enough to know

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you know that the universe is so big it

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it's hard to imagine that there isn't

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something out there that's similar to

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our solar system and could provide what

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what the earth provides for us

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but certainly we haven't seen that and

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you know maybe someday we will and it's

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hard for me to say whether i truly

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believe it or not i think it's possible

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i don't believe we've seen anything but

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i think it's possible that there is is

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we've been talking about the experiments

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that you're undertaking while you're

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there and foo may martin

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asks on twitter how much physics and

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chemistry taught in high school helps at

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i think any type of scientific class or

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mathematical class or any class really

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that you take is helpful even if you

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don't use the specific fundamentals that

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you learn in that class there is

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something about learning how to learn

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that i think is very important in a very

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broad spectrum

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and the same for for college a lot of

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the classes you take you're like you

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think to yourself i'm never going to use

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this and you know what sometimes you

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don't but i think it's the application

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of learning how to learn even if you

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don't use those fundamentals again that

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is the most important but a lot of it

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you do use it's good the experiments

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that we do here i think it's important

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for us to have at least some

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understanding even though we are working

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directly with the um the investigators

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of the the scientific experiments it's

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important for us to kind of at least

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understand what's going on so we can

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help and maybe we can see things and we

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you must have had some amazing views

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from up there greg wagner on facebook

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asks what one place on earth would you

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most like to visit uh with only the

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knowledge of having seen it from the

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oh wow

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you know there are so many beautiful

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places i don't even know how i would

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answer that

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i've seen some i've seen some mountain

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ranges that are just absolutely

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incredible and

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you know i'd like to go see some of

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those but at the same time i've come

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along some coastlines that look just

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breathtaking and so

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i guess i would have a lot of traveling

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to do if i tried to go to every single

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place that that i thought looked like a

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well cnn mexico commentator louis flores

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gonzalez asked if you were offered the

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opportunity to take a one-way trip to

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the deepest part of the universe will

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a one-way trip no

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especially the current situation i'm in

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with a young son and a husband at home

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you

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read my message or listen to my message

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as you are now what continent are you

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well let me see we actually have a

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program here we are

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we just uh passed over the east coast of

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south america and we are heading up

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towards africa we should be there in

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just a couple minutes and then we'll

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head up over

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in a couple of minutes time that is

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absolutely remarkable one quick question

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cnn leading women uh co-anchor christy

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lustad asked us uh says that you're a

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bit of a diy design keep she hears do

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i have been uh

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trying to do a little bit finding the

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free time it's amazing time goes so fast

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and in the on the in the weekdays in the

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evenings there's absolutely no time for

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that sundays is really my day and i

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actually got a few things out the other

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day and drew up a design on a piece of

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paper and cut up some old t-shirts and

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have started sewing things together i'm

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not quite sure exactly how it's going to

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turn out but

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i have spent a little bit of time and i

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have the supplies so i'm ready to uh

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when i when i find the time to sit there

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and do that only hopefully i'll get

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karen nyberg joining us from the

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international space station this morning

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karen it's been an absolute pleasure

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thank you very much indeed on behalf of

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thank you so much it was nice talking to

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station this is houston acr thank you

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thank you to cbs this morning and cnn