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thank you very much it's a pleasure to

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talk to you we wanted to talk to you

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today about taking pictures in space we

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have all these wonderful photographs

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from you guys and we want to know uh

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what what do you most enjoy taking

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okay i think all of us can agree that uh

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taking pictures of the earth is uh the

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most enjoyable

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uh every time we look down there's it's

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different the lighting is different the

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clouds are different uh so even though

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we pass over the same place several

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it just always looks a little different

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and for me that is definitely the most

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fun thing to take pictures of

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now that looks like a very heavy camera

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but i would imagine it's not so heavy in

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well that's part of the beauty of it is

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that you can maneuver

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a gun like this and uh be very

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comfortable and moving it around and

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point a different direction without any

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fatigue so it's uh

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it's actually really nice it's kind of

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like this microphone i can let it go and

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and it stays there and and then you can

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how much time do you guys have to take

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pictures up there what sort of gear are

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you using is this a camera that i could

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well um i think you have to ask your

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employer that to make sure before you

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head off to that that to buy this

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expensive camera i think they're pretty

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pricey but you certainly can that's um

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they're uh commercially available

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it's it's it's really it's really pretty

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con convenient to have such a selection

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that would that we have we have a wall

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of lenses and different camera bodies

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that we can use at any given time and

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it's usually in the evenings that we

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during the day um there are certain

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events certain locations that are

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scheduled into our day that we that we

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when you're taking pictures is it kind

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of like taking travel photos is it kind

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of like you're on a trip and you're

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taking pictures out the window of the

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car i mean are there certain things that

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you're that you're able to see from the

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space station that you're just dying to

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yeah well it a lot of times in fact our

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equipment is right right

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how you're looking at it and a lot of

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and and uh oh man i gotta go get a

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picture something is just as beautiful

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and and so in that way it's very similar

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to vacation when you're

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when you're traveling and you just have

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to stop you see some beautiful view that

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i mean how much does the scenery out the

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window change how does earth fill the

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that you've seen before that is not

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somehow different the lighting the angle

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uh the cloud cover and the sunlight so

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discovering you think it's it's uh

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that's just the beauty of this uh these

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have now personally my my favorite way

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when i when i was outside using this

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with that that is that nothing can

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wide lens one with a long one and that

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we're a little bit tricking you with

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this white one it's really the same

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material over the top of it and uh and

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prefer for that particular spacewalk

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and then the camera bodies are the same

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on these two just with different lenses

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perspective on an air in a narrow space

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and uh and then the obviously the longer

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selfies so to speak some self-portraits

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some trick photos what what what stuff

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peculiar about our crew is that he's one

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of the youngest crew overall that has

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been on the station i'm i'm 36 years old

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and my crew members are only slightly

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older than i am so we we like to send

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down pictures to the ground uh to the

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people that work with us every day

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to let them know that we think of them

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and and that we're having fun and even

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hard and it's a long day we still like

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to take a funny pictures that where we

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are we're all smiling or we are you know

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in some funny position or something

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funny happen and we like to uh to take a

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shot at that and let people know that

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that we're having fun and it's this is a

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great place to work and we're grateful

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is it fun is it especially fun to be in

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microgravity are there things you can do

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there to take cool pictures that you

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coolest things

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water i'm sure you've seen those

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pictures where you get a bubble of water

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in front of you and of course in the

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possible so things like that really make

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that spacewalk and i know luca you were

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you had some tense moments there can you

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it was a it was not a normal feeling so

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chris cam came by to to give up to give

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it a look he couldn't see anything he

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completely covered my eyes and my nose

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um it was really hard to see i i

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chris mentioned i was i was miserable

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chris really supported me and i was just

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thanks karen uh just to begin with the

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the picture you took of minnesota

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yesterday and tweeted karen is really

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going crazy on facebook and and and

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being retweeted what was that like

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the shuttle flight you tried taking that

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thank chris for that he knew that i'd

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the our world map program that shows

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intercom karen come the it's clear over

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minnesota and so i uh hightailed it down

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to the cupola and got a camera out and

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didn't expect that you could actually

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pick out the lakes

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you know the otter tail lakes the west

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battle east battle were you surprised

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that it was

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i really didn't know what to expect but

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i i was going to look for ottertail lake

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first because that i think in that area

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is the easiest to pick out and it was

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very easy to find it and then i knew

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that

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east battle lake was going to be nearby

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and so yeah it was it was very easy to

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find all of that with the naked eye

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and luca you've been tweeting a lot of

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pictures too and i think you and karen

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especially are finding it

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when there's big peninsulas and uh or or

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sicily or something like that that

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that's really fun to to take a picture

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of because people back here on earth can

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kind of relate and and pick out is that

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some of the things you kind of look at

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well i am from sicily and italy and the

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italian peninsula is probably one of the

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easiest spot uh to to find on earth on

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any any time even at night just the

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shape is so recognizable uh already if

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somebody asked me to take a specific

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picture in central europe would be a lot

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harder to find and as a matter of fact

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we have had some some trouble picking

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specific cities and capitals uh over

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europe um and and it's and it's true

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also for central united states and and

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and the central regions of asia

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we like the coastlines because they they

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mark they are very easy to recognize we

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we can follow a coastline and find

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specific landmarks so it is a lot of fun

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especially for somebody like me that

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comes from from italy and for the south

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of italy it's a lot of fun to identify

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spots and take a picture and then send

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it down for people to to see what we're

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do to see what we're doing and kind of

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get them curious uh that we're up here

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and we when we are flying over them they

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need to realize that we do that on our

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spare time so we get a lot of requests

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please take a picture of this town this

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place it's really hard to do that

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because we cannot guarantee that we will

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be over a specific place at a specific

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time to make a picture

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sure and karen i'm sure you're able to

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share pictures with uh

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family back home and and i know you can

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communicate with your husband and son

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are are they communicating with uh your

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son's artwork back up in space are you

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yeah it's kind of nice i get uh pictures

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of him and some of the art he's done and

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then i send down pictures and videos to

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to uh to him and my husband

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we've had some great we have had great

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communication

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lukak and i was listening to the

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interview uh prior to mine and i was

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just going to ask in the last 12 18

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hours have they been able to pin down

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any more on on on where that water came

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we have been doing some troubleshooting

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chris and i on my suit and and trying to

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uh find uh

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find what the the source could be at the

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at this specific moment we know where it

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where it did not come from we know it

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didn't come from the water back that

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that we used to drink and we know it

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didn't come from my uh from my lcvg the

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liquid cooling garment that we wear

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under the suit uh but nasa the nasa

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specialists and the engineers are still

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working really hard uh to find out

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exactly what happened and i'm sure that

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they will find

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and chris that certainly was a team

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effort i know karen was there as well

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that's one of those things that's not in

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the binder that you guys are always

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looking at

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can you just describe what those few

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yeah that's a good question you know

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before every spacewalker every major

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task that we do

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with robotics for example or spacewalks

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we have a brief and together as a crew

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we talk about what we're going to do and

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that where what we will do if there's a

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problem and we did the same thing the

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day before yesterday and we talked about

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a few different uh issues but lo and

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behold what happened was not one of

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those items that we discussed and

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and it was just through training and

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understanding about what's inside the

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suit how the suit works and how it could

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propagate to a bigger problem which it

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did

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and and then communicating with the

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ground

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when to end it and in my own gut feeling

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i could i knew it was time to end it

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when i saw the water creeping around his

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communications cap kind of right by his

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eyelid

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and and i knew that was a significant

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amount of water to be in a helmet

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and it was time to go in and and that

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all happened just like you said it was

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just a few moments it was maybe

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four to six minutes

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that we were discussing it and sitting

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outside and quickly the plan developed

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and and as all accidents or incidents

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excuse me happen it's right when the sun

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was setting and right uh as it made

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things harder so all those things sort

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of came together um at the perfect storm

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if you so to speak

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for for us to deal with

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well guys i really appreciate it you

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thanks a lot thanks for joining us

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station this is houston acr thank you

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thank you kgo tv and wda tv station we

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are now resuming operational audiocom

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and chris we are ready for your private