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so please say something

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is ready for final qualification exams

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on the russian segment of the

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do you have pens here yes here are the

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you should have put something in

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please sign it

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you see you would have gotten one point

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for that

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thank you

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video for nasa tv you have reached the

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final home stretch of your preparations

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and training for flight how significant

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are these final qualifications

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and what is your level of excitement

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well of course as we get closer and

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closer to launch i get more and more

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excited and i think we're more than

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ready to go these last few exams are a

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great way just to finish polishing all

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what about the olympic torch

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how did you prepare for that

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well we did not

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prepare uh in any special way we did not

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put any special effort into this in

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terms of the method or procedure of how

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to perform those actions we prepared

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psychologically though because not only

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it is important to do the action but it

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is a symbol and you have to feel

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it's a constant cultural exchange and

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mutual enrichment that we are going

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well that's a very broad question will

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beside the olympic torch are you going

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to do anything interesting

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how shall i put it

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i don't want to say anything negative at

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it's actually the olympic torch

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beside everything else not everything

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four years since torch been up to the

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how much are you looking forward to

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getting back up to your open space

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well this time it's going to be a little

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longer duration of stay compared to my

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previous flight and then there are new

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modules already here and then

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especially cupola i'm very much looking

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through the window so there are new

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things i've never seen before so i'm

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what about the backup crew

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are they ready yes hundred percent

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we are 100 interchangeable they can

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how are the crews selected

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it's something that's been going on for

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we are very interested in the olympic

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torch and where did the idea to take it

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to orbit come from

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well this has been a decision

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by the olympic committee

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just to be sure that you understand

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fire either on the station or in outer

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what about the backup crew

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backup crew and we kind of hope that

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they will fly on time but just in case

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something happens the backup crew can

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when the crew don their spacesuits

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get on the bus

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the final exam

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crew training on the russian segment of

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titov and mice and i came to the united

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international astronauts selected

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friends for a long time it's not his

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professional astronaut that will tackle

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very common flight because the crew will

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members for the station and plus the

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torches manufactured

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ground but it will not contain any fire

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to the station and then send it back

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torch we worked a lot with that we

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space use we had to

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will there be any imitation of the open

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you know there cannot be any open fire

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for space flight in any special way

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ceremony from one crew to the next but

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space flight and space shuttle missions

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forward to a great mission

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uh up and down before but this is my

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this question could be

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part in flight instead of shuttle flight

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thank you and for you miguel this will

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the space station so what what are you

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i don't think there is a big difference

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in comparison

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but as

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everything new it is exciting

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mikhail it's your second day of training

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how can you

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evaluate the first day of your eval

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training

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was

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it

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difficult on the russian segment or is

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it going to be more difficult today i

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wouldn't be comparing those days each

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one of them

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is dedicated to an important part

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of the program

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so both days are equally hard and

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equally

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uh challenging

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yes i'm very happy with the work we've

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we are very happy with the interaction

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of the crew

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and also with the flight control team on

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the ground we

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uh realized that we do understand each

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other very well and we are backing each

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thank you thank you very much

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williams

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and just a little over a year ago you

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sure this is a very important stage of

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the training

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what they're going through is the whole

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launch day rendezvous day and then

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undocking and landing day it's going to

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take eight hours

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which in real life would take of course

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six hours to get to the station and then

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after undocking another four hours to

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get back to the earth so it's a slightly

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compressed but it is really a summary of

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all the critical dynamic operations that

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the soyuz will perform going up to the

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station and then coming back home to

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earth

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actually it's pretty darn close you know

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we do training like this and training in

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a hydra lab or the neutral buoyancy lab

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for spacewalks we do robotic training

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on a computer and all of those elements

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of training are very realistic and

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really get you ready so that you're

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feeling when you're going through this

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critical operations like you've done

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this before and you're not necessarily

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nervous like oh i've never seen this

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before so it's really good and this is

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great training that these guys are going

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through right now and you know my

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comment to them as they were getting

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ready was have fun because if they can

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start to imagine what it's really going

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to be like when you're riding on a

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shaking your hand

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dear chairman of the committee

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the backup crew is ready to take the

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test

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yes

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yeah the pen is working

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max can you smile give us a smile

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is

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i guess we can leave now because the

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exactly

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foreign

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for nasa tv for both rick and koichi

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you're both veterans of multiple space

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flight and space shuttle missions to the

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international space station how are you

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looking forward to flying up to the

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space station on the soyuz vehicle and

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what are some of the differences in

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training and the challenges for you both

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i guess i could take a shot at that uh

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yeah i've flown on the space shuttle

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several times of course it was in a

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great vehicle but it's interesting to

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have the opportunity to fly on a

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different vehicle i've really enjoyed

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the training here in star city and i'm

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looking forward to a great mission

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yeah yeah echo rick flew on the shuttle

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uh up and down before but this is my

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first time to actually launch and land

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on the soyuz spacecraft so it's a new

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challenge for me and i very much i look

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forward to this new experience

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this question could be

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addressed to me also because i also took

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part in flight instead of shuttle flight

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thank you and for you mikhail this will

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be the first single day

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into the space station so what what are

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you looking forward to

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the differences um from just the two day

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rendezvous versus the one-day run

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i don't think there is a big difference

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in comparison

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but as

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everything new it is exciting

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mikhail it's your second day of uh

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evaluation training uh how can you

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uh assess the first day

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was the first day more difficult than

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today

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i wouldn't be

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comparing them both days are complex and

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very challenging and both days are

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dedicated to separate

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elements

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and parts of the program

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both are very important and very

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are you happy with the results yes of

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course

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in two ways for sure first of all it's

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the interaction of the crew and second

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of all is our interaction with the

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flight control team

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we've learned that

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we

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and just a little over a year ago you

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yourself were taking those soyuz

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qualifications

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can you tell us what's going on in that

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sure this is a very important stage of

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the training

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what they're going through is the whole

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launch day rendezvous day and then

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undocking and landing day it's going to

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take eight hours

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which in real life would take of course

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six hours to get to the station and then

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after undocking another four hours to

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get back to the earth so it's a slightly

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compressed but it is really a summary of

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all the critical dynamic operations that

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the soyuz will perform going up to the

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station and then coming back home to

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it's pretty darn close you know we do

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training like this and training in a

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hydra lab or the neutral buoyancy lab

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for spacewalks we do robotic training on

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a computer and all of those elements of

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training are very realistic and really

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get you ready so that you're feeling

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when you're going through this critical

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operations like you've done this before

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you're not necessarily nervous like oh

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i've never seen this before so it's

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really good and this is great training

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that these guys are going through right

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now and you know my comment to them as

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they were getting ready was have fun

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because if they can start to imagine

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what it's really going to be like when