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i have you loud and clear from the

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karen nyberg thank you so much i'm gonna

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start that over

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karen nyberg it is a pleasure to talk to

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you today uh we've seen in fact i've

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been watching you on twitter some really

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fantastic pictures from space we've seen

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uh the sunrise shot in peru san diego

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from space you've even shown us how

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installing new data cables can be fun so

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give us an idea of from your perspective

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what it's look like what it's like to

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one thing i can say is the earth is just

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absolutely beautiful and i think every

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time i go to look out the window

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everything looks a little different

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every time you pass over someplace it

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looks a little different the clouds are

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different the sun is at a different

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angle and so anytime you want to take a

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picture you're bound to find something

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beautiful to snap a shot

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what kind of experiments are you

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performing in space and kind of in

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we have a lot of different things that

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we're doing we're of course doing a lot

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experiments with fluids and combustion

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and that type of thing we're also doing

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a lot of experiments on ourselves and

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that's a lot that we've been doing over

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the past couple weeks we're doing

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experiments

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looking at

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our bone density because astronauts tend

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to lose their bone density very quickly

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in orbit and we're doing a lot looking

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at how our diet might affect it and

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other ways we can mitigate that bone

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loss with exercise and things like that

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we're looking at our eyesight we've

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noticed changes in vision of astronauts

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for after they've been in space for a

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long time so we're doing a lot of tests

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and we're kind of hoping that a lot of

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these things will have applications for

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earth um certainly bone loss has

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applications for how we might mitigate

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bone loss for folks that have

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osteoporosis and with the eyesight there

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are a lot of eye problems

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in the world and hopefully some of the

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research we're doing will will help some

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well we know you've been uh preparing

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for this for years now but

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do you ever get used to the confinement

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that comes from being in space and being

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it's actually quite large we um we have

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quite a few modules each one is about

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the size of a school bus or beggar and

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there's actually quite a lot of quite

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i've never felt confined

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it was a lot more confined obviously the

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soyuz vehicle that brought us up here is

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quite small and when i flew on the space

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shuttle back in 2008

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obviously a lot smaller but the space

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i was reading a tweet from you karen and

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you know you're doing a lot of work

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while you're up there

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you've discovered that when you lose

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something in space it eventually turns

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that's true i had uh put my i was

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wearing my glasses and i took them off

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to do something and i i put them down in

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a place that i thought they would stay

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and when i went back to get them they

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weren't there anymore and i kind of

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looked around and and didn't see them

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and of course you have to look in all

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directions because things aren't going

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to fall because of gravity and so i

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waited an hour or so and then i came

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back in and searched right along the the

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floor area where the the air is sucked

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into the ventilation system and sure

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well one thing here we know you're not a

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slacker just by looking at your resume

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but we understand you were also able to

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you know while you were up in the space

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station able to check in your class

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that was really fun i had actually

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during our 20th high school reunion i me

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and a friend had offered to organize the

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25th and once i got assigned to this

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mission and found out that it was going

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to take place in the summer of 2013

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which would have been the 25th i sent

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everybody a note and said sorry i'm not

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going to be able to help organize it but

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it would be really neat if i could call

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i can only imagine

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that's that that i mean

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you know that you just made their day by

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you yourself being there and then also

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for all the people that could see what

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it was like to talk to you in space now

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i know that you're oh you have one child

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and how are you keeping in touch with

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your child when you're obviously doing

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video conference once every weekend and

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sometimes on holidays where i can

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actually see my husband and my son i

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talk to my husband every day sometimes a

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couple times a day and i also make a

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little video every day for my son that i

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send down via email to my husband and he

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shows it to him usually in the evening

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before he goes to bed and

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and then i get pictures and videos of

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if is there one or a couple of visual

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images that will stay in your mind

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forever as you look out toward earth as

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the thing that i really hope sticks in

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my mind is the is the sunrises and

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sunsets it's it's quite an impressive

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thing to see the terminator on the earth

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as it travels along the earth where it

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is completely

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pitch black on one side and then these

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vibrant blue amazing colors on the other

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and it just travels very slowly across

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the earth and transitioning between day

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and night it is it is an unbelievable

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i i just can't imagine i mean i've been

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looking at your tweets and and so many

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beautiful pictures it's really

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incredible that we can have this kind of

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communication with you

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while you're there did you ever think

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yeah it's it's always it always seems

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like how did we ever get here you think

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back to like the time i was a kid and it

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it is unfathomable from that period of

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time to think where we've gotten but

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what i'm trying to do with my pictures

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is is give everybody the best view of

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what it really looks like for us so i

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try to use a lens that makes it look

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like it does

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for the to our naked eye as we're

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make sure that the final picture has the

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colors and the depth that we see

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as well and and

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i just really want to give other people

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the opportunity to see as close to what

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give us an idea of some of the unique

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challenges that you face day to day

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things that maybe you weren't prepared

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for once you finally made it up there

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and just maybe you know doing what

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everything that we need to stick to a

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wall or anywhere we we use velcro but it

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also can be your worst enemy i my socks

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constantly sticking to to velcro and my

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if you can just give us an idea for

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people who maybe maybe aren't

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sure what exactly nasa astronauts what

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what is your purpose for being there

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what do you hope to accomplish what are

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your goals and and you know give us a

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little bit more as far as what you're

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doing while you're up there on a

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well originally the goal was building

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the space station and not long ago we

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basically finished it we have one more

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russian module coming up soon but

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otherwise it's basically finished and

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now the goal is to do science and use it

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to make investigations

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there are a lot of things a lot of the

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science where gravity plays such a big

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role in how a fluid behaves how a fire

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behaves and if you can take out that

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variable it's easier for scientists to

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understand what is really happening with

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the rest of the of the problem and so it

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really you can get a lot of advances in

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the mathematical equations that are

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describing these processes

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for the engineers and scientists who are

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working on it and then also we're

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looking forward to further exploration

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and a lot of the equipment that is here

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on the space station is kind of a it's

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almost a test mode for future vehicles

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we're learning how to recycle water

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we're learning how to power completely

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off of solar energy um and again and a

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earth applications and then there's the

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aspect of the international partnership

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it's actually quite amazing to think

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that this space station came together um

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with all of these various countries and

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this thing was designed by various

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countries and throughout the world

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but built here together traveling over

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i think that aspect of it is pretty

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it is and so are you we appreciate you

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taking the time it is a pleasure and

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thanks for all the hard work that you're

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doing in the name of science and

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technology it's really incredible nasa

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astronaut karen nyberg thanks so much

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i'm glad you could join me on the