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houston this is the space station ready

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wgme tv this is mission control houston

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station this is wgme tv how do you hear

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loud and clear welcome aboard to the

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thank you so much chris first of all i

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would like to say it is such an honor

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and a privilege to be able to talk to

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you again aboard the iss so thank you

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absolutely my pleasure my time is

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winding down so i'm very happy to talk

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well let's talk about that a bit it must

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seem almost unreal to you that this

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mission is about to come to a close how

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you know it's interesting i get that as

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i get asked that often these days and

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the time has gone by so incredibly fast

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it feels to me honestly like i've been

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here three and a half months or so

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instead of five just north of five but

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i'll be really sad to leave next week

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this is an incredible and an incredible

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experience this place is an amazing

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laboratory but by the same token i'm

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ready to go it's time for somebody else

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to some other people to come and and do

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their thing and have their opportunity

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and i'm really excited to go back and

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as they are excited to see you i am sure

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chris tell us a little bit about some of

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the highlights if you could i'm sure

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there are many over the last five months

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but for you what's going to stand out

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some of the obvious ones are one night

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when chris hadfield tom marshburn and i

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went to bed thinking it was gonna be a

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normal uh friday when we woke up the

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next day and we were told we were doing

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a spacewalk the following day

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that was certainly a highlight in tom

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and myself getting an opportunity to go

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out and fix the ammonia leak or be part

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of that whole process

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crew to me is a highlight even though

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that's not a one discrete event it's

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just the whole daily interaction uh with

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a canadian russians italian and nasa

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colleagues it's just been fantastic and

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then to to right before going to bed

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have the opportunity to look out the

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window and see our planet below us all

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those things will just stay with me

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if we could talk just for a moment about

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that spacewalk there were some dicey

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moments there where i'm sure your heart

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was racing can you run us through the

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yeah absolutely um so it was a planned

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like most star six hour six and a half

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hour space walk and very early into it

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early hint of water on the back of his

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head which is totally not normal

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where is it coming from we're trying to

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think out loud where the water will be

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coming from and as we're doing this

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troubleshooting you could literally see

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away from lucas hellman i could see the

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by himself because my route had me going

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airlock i could see the water was uh all

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still able to breathe but it was just

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folks inside to get uh re-pressurized

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little bit more about some of the

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experiments that you've taken part in on

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subjects of and then there's the type

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a glove box right here but that was

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fluid to go where you want and the

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application is a pumpless uh fuel tank

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tank uh in space and then the kind when

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ultrasound machine uh testing

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world can get the medical care that they

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little bit now about what happens as you

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preparation has been ongoing if i just

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the power curve but that's not the case

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fortunately we have a really nice

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protocol and we've been working out the

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whole time and i feel physically strong

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terrific how you've managed to stay in

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touch with your hometown even taking

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part in the road race what is it meant

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like you for you rather to stay

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as the only astronaut well we just

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astronaut from maine and uh and that's a

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great deal of pride for me to to

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represent our state in the manned space

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program and and it's something that i

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think is fun to try to connect back with

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just fortunate enough to be up here and

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what an amazing opportunity for you

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public relations kind of trips i think

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maine in the first week of november for

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and then a few more trips before

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all sort of public relations kind of

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trips before the holidays and then i'll

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after the new year in houston supporting

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for now and say thank you so much chris

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thank you so much it was great to talk

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station this is houston acr that

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please stand by for a voice check from

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station good morning this is cbs radio

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hi bill welcome to the space station

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great to hear you again

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actually chris this is peter king but

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bill harwood will be on the line with us

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both in just a couple of seconds here

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and and i guess we have to start with

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the requisite question of you coming

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home next tuesday and i know there have

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and just the whole experience with the

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wait over at the kennedy space center

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chris a couple of quick ones from me

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um mike suffredini was telling us

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yesterday that you're going to be doing

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some simple

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post landing exercises kind of part of

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the program to see what might mean

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needed for future voyagers making really

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long duration flights maybe to mars or

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something like that i mean as a next

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seal i mean you're obviously in better

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shape than most and you've stayed in

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shape and orbit but what do you how do

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you think that's going to go and tell me

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well they at face value those things the

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tasks that i'll be doing are not super

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complicated

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sitting from from sitting in a chair

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standing up from lying down flat to

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standing up and some small jumps i think

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like just few basic things that i've all

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done pre-flight and they have videoed

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how

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when i'm normally adjusted to 1g and

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i'll do those again uh very soon after

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landing in the medical tent there in

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kazakhstan and uh

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i'm kind of curious to be quite honest

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bill i'm really curious how it will go

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i remember how i felt after my shuttle

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landing and i think i could have done

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those i would have been wobbly but i

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would have been able to do those tasks

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so i'm really really curious to see how

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it is after after this length of time i

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don't think physical fitness has much

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that much to do with it as it does

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neural vestibular kind of things

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yeah you're probably right about that

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um one quick question in terms of what

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you're looking forward to with landing

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you'll be riding the soyuz home tell me

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a little bit about what you're looking

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forward to that's that's quite a ride by

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you know everybody i talked to has said

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it's just they i ask them what it's like

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and they just shake their hands they you

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just gotta experience it so i'm really

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excited to just experiencing it but

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specifically

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the the parachute opening i i'm really

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i've done a bunch of regular parachute

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jumping with my own body and i'm curious

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to see what the opening shock uh it will

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be like between the two probably much

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more significant in this case and uh and

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then the separation of the compartments

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too that that's something we train for a

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lot uh on the ground but you really

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can't sim the the real environment so

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those those two

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things and obviously the impact at

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physical touchdown is is a huge moment

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too but there's a whole bunch of

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activities that will take place and i'm

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just trying to keep keeping up on my

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checklist

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chris it's uh peter king again and you

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mentioned those cargo days a couple of

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moments ago a new cargo craft is due for

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launch from wallops island up in

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virginia in a couple of weeks the

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orbital science is cygnus craft uh and

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that adds just a little bit more to the

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mix can you talk to me a little bit

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about the importance of having

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well as with with anything

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it's nice to have

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alternates and backup plans things can

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go wrong with any vehicle or and not

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even in the space program your car it's

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nice it's why we that's why you and your

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wife have probably have two cars um so

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you can back each other up and then

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that'll be the case here you know we'll

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have multiple ways to get cargo to space

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and uh as

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uh it will will be increased

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the crew to nine for example here in a

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few few months and those are the types

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of instances where we really got to be

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prepared for having additional water

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additional food

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the clothing to support all those people

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and then the experiments and everything

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else that goes on that goes is involved

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with keeping this place running

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like a well-oiled machine that it is now

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which i truly believe

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we're really firing on all cylinders in

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terms of getting the most out of this

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place and maintaining at the same time

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it's amazing what the the engineers and

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the ground controllers can do and we can

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help out as best we can from up here

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between russia isa

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jaxa uh spacex and now orbital sciences

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and i'm counting uh five delivery

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streams here i'm wondering has the

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program made up or more than made up for

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losing the delivery capability of the

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well maybe if you add up all that uh

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weight and volume you you you probably

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you're probably close to even i don't

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know the exact numbers but the the

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physical size of some of the components

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that the shuttle can bring up we we're

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not quite there yet so

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the shuttle was a really really cool

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machine and uh the capabilities that it

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had to allow us to build this thing uh

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and and have may be able to fly

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from the jlp come down make a corner

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another couple corners and zip all the

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way down to the russian segment and do

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that takes about a couple minutes to go

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that length and and the shuttle was

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certainly the workhorse to get us to to

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allow us to do

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that hey chris bill harwood one more

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time uh you got a question about iss

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extension boeing is doing a an

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engineering analysis to look at what

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might need to be done to get stationed

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to 2020 and then there's a lot of talk

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about possibly operating it all the way

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to 2028 the 30th anniversary of the

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first modules launch what's your sense

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of that i mean i realize you have a very

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narrow angle view up there but what's

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your sense of the station's ability to

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do that and what would you say to those

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who might argue that it would make more

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sense to spend that money on something

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yeah that's a that's a really good

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question and

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you know when you come down to it i

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think mechanically physically this place

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will have no problem getting to that

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that date um

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it's more a question for our lawmakers

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and and the big

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picture of how we see our space program

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going in terms of uh we're given a

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budget everywhere every agency every

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government organization has their budget

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and you got to make decisions based on

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that and

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at some point we have to figure out what

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we can do with our given uh allotment of

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money and and make the best for it

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whatever the goal is for it my personal

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opinion is this place is a fantastic

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laboratory and like i said it's really

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really ticking well right now and to uh

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to to we need to just keep on taking

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advantage of of of this place while we

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can

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make it to the date that you mentioned

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chris it's peter for at least one more

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here you know you had an incident last

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month where you spotted a ufo of sorts

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that turned out to be a piece of uh uh

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the old uh russian vesta now uh how

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cognizant we know you're pretty

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cognizant of what's out there in terms

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of earth-bound objects and you spend a

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lot of time looking at the earth i'm

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just wondering how much time you spend

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looking in the other direction for

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things that

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might not be from our planet that might

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well

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for some reason there's a big blue

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magnet for my eyes and as soon as i try

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to lift lift that gaze off the edge of

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the horizon my eyeballs get sucked right

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back to earth maybe the force of gravity

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uh affects my eyeballs from space

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because i can't stop looking at earth

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and uh the the farthest i i i every now

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and then i look off into the to the

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skies and the stars and and and gaze off

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in that direction but to be quite honest

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uh

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99 of my time is looking right down at

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the planet and uh when we saw that

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floating um

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antenna cover it was really interesting

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it was just kind of hovering right above

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the service module we knew it was a

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cover of some sort but it had no

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rate at all it was really cool to see it

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just kind of slowly drifted away took

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forever for it to separate from us

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chris a yes no quick question you've

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been up there for uh some five months

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plus would you like to go back and do it

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yeah i i would it's uh

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the answer is yes and i would talk to my

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family and my wife about that but if it

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was just me i would say absolutely yes

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i'd come back no problem i'd love to

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great well great speaking with you have

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a safe trip home and we will look

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forward to speaking with you when you

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thanks so much peter and bill nice

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talking to you talk to see you soon

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station this is houston acr that

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thank you wgme tv and cbs radio network