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station this is houston are you ready

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i'm ready for the event

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nbc today this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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i have you loud and clear welcome to the

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good morning dr nyberg now i am seeing

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your hair standing on end there and for

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most of us uh as we know washing our

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hair is an everyday occurrence but for

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you it takes on a whole new meaning tell

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me about the video you decided to share

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well i was amazed how many people i had

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asked me how i wash my hair and i guess

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it is unusual there have been many women

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in the past that have flown on short

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duration missions with long hair and

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then a couple on long duration missions

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too and i guess it is fascinating for

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folks and so i thought i would try and

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answer that question by showing and it's

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actually quite simple i think some

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people i've even seen some of the

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comments from the from the youtube video

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and and people commenting on how how

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difficult it is and i actually think

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it's quite easy it uses very little

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water um

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and just a little bit of the no rinse

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shampoo and and i don't think it's much

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are you surprised by the reaction the

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amount of publicity you got from this

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actually i was very surprised it uh got

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a lot more uh more views than i would

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have expected but like you said it's a

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common everyday thing people have to

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have to clean up every single day and so

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i guess it's just it's just fascinating

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to see it done in an environment that's

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different from what you do it in

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well you mentioned you need the dry

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shampoo

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and the water so what other tools do you

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basically just a comb and a towel i have

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a

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months

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and uh and then a comb just to comb it

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through and get get the snake snarls out

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now i i know this is a little bit of a

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juggling act with zero gravity you're

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holding the microphone and you've got

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the dry shampoo but would you care to

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give us a little demo and explain the

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well without adding water exactly to my

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hair right now i can show you uh usually

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what i do is just take the water and i

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just kind of add it to my the scalp area

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in fact sometimes i wash only the scalp

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and don't bother getting it to the rest

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of my hair

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and then i take the uh

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my comb usually and and run the water up

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through through my hair and then add a

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little bit of the no rinse shampoo to

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the scalp as well and rub it in and

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sometimes use a towel or a washcloth to

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kind of to kind of uh there you get a

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lot of your natural body oils and also

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my hair picks up a lot of the dust or

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anything that's in the air which is

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evident by the brush that i use every so

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often

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and so then i just uh

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dry it and comb it through again and

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what happens to all the extra water as

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it floats off in the zero gravity

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well what we're what we're trying to do

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here is demonstrate on the international

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space station of recycling things which

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is a necessity really because we can't

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bring up all the water we need so we

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have a water processing system that

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takes all of the condensate from the air

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and actually our urine as well

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and processes it into drinking water and

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so it's very it's a very much a closed

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system every so often we'll get some

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fresh water we just had some delivered

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on the japanese cargo vehicle that

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arrived last week

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and but but most of the water we use is

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recycled water and i think that's very

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important for future missions to come

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when we are heading further distances

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away and don't have the supply or

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and dr nyberg as you know your colleague

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and fellow astronaut

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chris hadfield made quite a name for her

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himself posting several videos while he

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was there at the international space

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station as well including the david

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bowie cover space oddity are you taking

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over for him and how much more are you

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well i don't really think i'm taking

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over for him uh chris is very unique in

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his talents and abilities to reach out

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to people and i you know i i just i'm

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just not that what not like that i don't

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have the charisma i don't think that he

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has but i'm trying to show what i can

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in some of the pictures that i take and

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i've i've been sharing um

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some of the views from earth my favorite

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views because i think it's great that

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others who don't get the opportunity and

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aren't don't have the privilege of

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well it's been a pleasure talking with

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you we look forward to more of your

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postings dr karen nyberg and i know your

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family in minnesota is especially proud

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thanks a lot it was nice talking to you

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you too thank you

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station this is houston acr thank you

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thank you nbc today's station we are now