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houston this is station we're ready for

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washington post this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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station this is the washington post how

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we hear you loud and clear welcome

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aboard the international space station

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delighted to be here with you today i

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mean i'm sort of a science geek the

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washington post newsroom is buzzing with

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excitement i want to ask you i'll direct

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this to you karen first

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you guys have been up you guys have been

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up there a couple of months what's the

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biggest adjustment i i see you guys are

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oh gosh the biggest adjustment

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probably uh one of the things that you

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learn is that when you drop something

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you obviously have to look all over

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we've had problems with a couple things

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the last couple days and uh you know on

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earth you drop something and you

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automatically look to the floor and

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that's where it'll be and oftentimes you

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drop something and you look all over the

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place and it'll be right behind your

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head and you look back this way and look

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back this way and you don't see it and

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well it depends how you define lost i

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so tell me this what exactly are you

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guys doing in space what sort of

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experiments are you doing

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uh and how do they affect life here on

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to as low impact to us as just setting

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experiments that just run all by

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themselves without our interaction

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whatsoever and

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quality medical care wow that is very

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very related to what is happening here

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on karen i want to direct this to you it

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nasa is in trouble just in terms of

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such a huge moment that doesn't really

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happen now what do you think about the

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future of space travel as an american

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country that will um will keep getting

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terms of where we want to go

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everything works and i think the moon is

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mars now that's just my own personal

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as a nation and that's for our lawmakers

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uh karen i'm gonna direct this to you

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how do you keep in touch with folks back

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or or with the news or well we have an

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kuben antenna coverage which isn't

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yeah follow luca and karen i'm too much

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of a knuckle dragger to know how to type

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tweeting is where it's at all the kids

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my family and that's a an obvious answer

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mars uh karen would you be up for going

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all righty thank you so much karen and

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so awesome good luck

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station this is houston acr that

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the event please stand by for a voice

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check from the portland press herald

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station this is the portland press

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hello in portland it's great to hear you

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welcome to the space station thank you

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repressurize the airlock and get us back

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you know it was a critic important

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situation or and but it was very timely

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how we everything happened to get

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lined up to get back inside

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great and chris you grew up right here

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on the southern coast of maine in york

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how do you stay connected to your

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hometown i heard you recently

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participated in york's four on the

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yeah every every year on the fourth of

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july in my hometown they have that race

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and i've been uh when i was home i ran

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it um

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often i've been gone for a while now in

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in the military but um

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that was one way i was really excited to

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participate in

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and include the town in my in my mission

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and include the state of maine uh in in

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our mission as well i have friends there

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and my mom still lives in the same house

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that

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i grew up in there in york so when i go

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back and visit it's fun to see

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uh family and friends

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and i'll be there

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i land in september i think sometime in

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early november i'll be back in maine

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going to a few places

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that sounds great um karen i was hoping

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you could tell us a little bit about the

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research you're doing while you're up

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yeah we have a lot of research going on

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there's probably about 150 various

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experiments that are going on throughout

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our increment a lot of the research

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is are things that are happening behind

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some of the panels that you see here

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where our interaction will with them

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will be to open them up

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put in new experiments do maintenance on

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the racks and then once we close them

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it's all up to the ground to control

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them remotely there's everything from

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combustion to fluid physics to material

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science

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and

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we have a little more

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hands-on with them and we will actually

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work directly with the principal

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investigators on the ground talking to

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them while we're doing it and we can

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observe things and they will ask us

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questions and we kind of control the

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experiment and there are also a lot of

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experiments that we're doing on

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ourselves and that's one of the

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important things that we're doing we're

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studying what happens to our bodies when

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we're living in a microgravity

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environment for the future when we

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travel further away from the earth or

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spend more time in a microgravity

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environment

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and karen i also wanted to ask you about

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your use of social media while you're up

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there on the space station um i've seen

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your twitter feed and

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facebook and pinterest posts so how are

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you using

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that social media to stay connected with

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well the main thing that i decided to

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try and do

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was to one of my goals is to connect

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people who wouldn't necessarily be

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thinking about the space program and i

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thought pinterest would be a good way to

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do that and another thing i wanted to do

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was to show

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especially looking at the earth the way

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we see it and so i've been trying really

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hard to capture photographs that look

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the way it does when we look out the

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window and then i also like to add try

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and make them as artistic as possible

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too i like art and i like

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crafts and drawing and painting and so

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when i when i get a picture and i look

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through them i try to pick the ones that

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i think are the most aesthetically

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pleasing and i will rotate them and crop

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okay

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and i know you both have

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children and spouses back here at home

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can you talk a little bit about how you

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sure we have

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once a week the ground sets up a video

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conference with us on usually on the

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weekends where we have you know like a

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facetime or skype type of a conference

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with our family

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it's not those programs but similar

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thing

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and of course we have email

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that we can exchange and re recently we

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had an upgrade to our email so it it

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sends and receives more often than it

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used to just be a couple times a day

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before now it's more frequent

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that those are the main oh and we can

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also have an application on our computer

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that that we can dial uh phone numbers

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and talk on the phone depending on where

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we are in the orbit for satellite

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many of us down here have seen

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youtube videos of

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karen washing her hair in space or you

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chris of shaving your head while you're

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up there why do you think people are so

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fascinated by these seemingly mundane

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well i think that um

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that's a good question and both of us

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are kind of laughing because we don't

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really know exactly how to answer but i

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think that um

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people

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can very relate very much relate to

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things that

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we all have in common with each other

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and that's you know getting dressed

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brushing your teeth dealing with your

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hair or the absence of hair and uh

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putting clothes on and all and eating

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all the things that every single one of

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us do

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every single day and uh and we're just

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doing those same things in a different

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location so it's probably fun that's why

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and what do you miss um about

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i guess what do you miss about being

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for me the main thing is is my family um

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i have a husband and a small son

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so i miss them a lot and i miss being at

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home

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and have my saturday morning coffee with

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my husband and uh you know of course all

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the things that i that a person does

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with their with their children

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and also uh running outside i love to

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run and and

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you know a treadmill just isn't quite

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the same we have a treadmill here that

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we run on but but i really really miss

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and and chris what about you are there

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food items that you miss while you're up

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well i do like to eat a lot so that is

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one thing that that very often comes

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into my mind and we had a just a minute

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ago i was telling somebody else that uh

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a colleague of ours sent us an email

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just a few a half hour ago of some

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homemade baked goods and those looked

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really yummy to me so that's one thing

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that i i miss and

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being outside the smells of being

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outside and just

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particularly in the summer when there's

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fresh remote grass and that sort of

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thing and and uh being on the coast of

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maine there and smelling that that

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unique smell of the ocean and the rock

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rocky coast that's the sort of thing

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that you can't replace up here and and

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those are the things that i'm looking

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and any surprising facts about being up

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there on the space station that you

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think people here might be interested to

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your fingernails grow at the same rate

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and

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we go around the earth every 90 minutes

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so we have sunlight for 45 minutes and

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dark for 45 minutes and it really

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doesn't affect us because we're just we

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turn the lights on when it's time to

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wake up and we turn them off when we all

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say good night and if we're interested

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in going to the window we just look and

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it happens to be day or night so that

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those those cycles have no impact on our

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circadian rhythms at all it's more of

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our daily work and

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when we associate eating breakfast lunch

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and dinner with go waking up and going

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to bed

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great well thank you so much for

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speaking with us today and i hope the

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rest of your trip is a safe one and

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we'll look forward to seeing you in

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thanks so much and i look forward to

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getting back to maine take care

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station this is houston acr that

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thank you washington post and portland