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station this is houston are you ready

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i am ready for the event

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henning school district this is mission

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control houston

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station this is dana dam with the

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henning school district how do you hear

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henning minnesota i hear you loud and

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clear welcome to the international space

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hello karen for the past few years you

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have been the subject of our thoughts of

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our prayers

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of our questions

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most importantly our lesson plans and

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our inspiration and admiration

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thank you for taking time aboard the iss

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to continue to inspire and teach members

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of your hometown of your school

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of our student body we have some

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questions for you today if that's all

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absolutely uh it's my pleasure to be

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able to do this with you guys today

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excuse me a special hello to my mom and

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hello my name is tayden soma

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i'm in kindergarten my question is

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what does space flight ride from the

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surface of the earth so believe it or

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not space doesn't look all that

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different from here than it does from

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earth the difference is that when you

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guys look into space you have to look

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through earth's atmosphere and we don't

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have that to look through so it can look

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very very dark a lot darker probably

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than you see it and the stars you know

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how the stars kind of twinkle when you

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look at them here they're very solid and

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the aurora the northern lights i don't

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know if you've ever seen those but when

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we look at those they're beautiful and

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we see them along the surface of the

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earth so it's very similar to what you

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see from the earth just a little just a

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hello my name is carter kenyon

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in second grade my question is does

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being in space with no gravity feel like

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that's a very keen observation it

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actually does in a lot of ways in fact

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we use water to train for space walks

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because what we can do i don't know if

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you've noticed when you wear a life

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jacket you float if you wear if you tie

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a rock to you you would sink well we

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have something called neutral buoyancy

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where if you have an equal amount of

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that you will just kind of float in the

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water without moving and that's very

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similar to what it is so we use that a

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big pool to just train for space walks

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so we can feel what it's like to move

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hello my name is melody justice and i am

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in third grade my question is how old

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were you when you decide to be an

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well if you're in the third grade i

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probably was about your age when i

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decided i was uh very young and i was

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probably going to school sitting in the

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hello my name is chloe winters and i am

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in fifth grade my question is what is

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your favorite thing to do aboard the

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well there are a lot of really cool

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things to do here looking out the window

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also like to do i like zipping around

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you can get moving pretty fast we have

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hand rails on all the walls here and you

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can hold on with your feet or just push

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off with your hands and i like zipping

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around corners and flipping upside down

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because sometimes what you're doing the

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floor is actually what would seem like

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the floor and sometimes the floor can be

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one of the walls and so it's fun to just

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zip around corners and change your

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orientation and just float all over the

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hello my name is tony killing and i am

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in ninth grade my question is is it

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well that's interesting i know there are

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a lot of difficulties in being an

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astronaut no matter who you are and i

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haven't noticed a lot different

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with the challenges that i face as being

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an astronaut as my male colleagues but

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not having been a male astronaut myself

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of course i can't compare but the

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difficulties that i've run into and the

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challenges i've had are very similar to

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hello my name is christy fink and my

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does it take your body a long time to

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get back to normal when you return to

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actually it does our bodies are very

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very smart and they will adapt to

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whatever situation they're in and up

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here in space without gravity

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our bodies don't really need our bones

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and they don't need our muscles all that

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much because we're not walking around

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all the time so without the exercise we

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do every day our bones and our muscles

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would degrade very very fast and so we

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exercise about two hours every day we do

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resistive training and also

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cardiovascular training and so hopefully

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that will mitigate some of the problems

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when we return to earth but even with

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that our bodies are just not used to

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that gravity and also our vestibular

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systems we get very used to the lack of

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gravity and

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the gravity gravity plays a big role in

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the way your your inner ears are working

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and all of that and so it takes a long

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time and there's quite a transition

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like people that are runners it can take

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up to four or five months before you're

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hi my name

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is isabel guiding

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i am in kindergarten

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i absolutely love being in space and i

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think you would like it too like i said

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before floating around and zipping

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around as fast as you can without

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gravity and doing the flips it is really

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a lot of fun it's something that i

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really wish everybody could experience

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hello my name is rand hula

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my question is what is the closest thing

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i've actually seen a lot of cool things

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i've liked looking at the aurora that i

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mentioned which is the like the northern

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lights and the southern lights but one

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thing i've noticed the coolest thing

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this has been a big geography lesson for

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me i'll go out the window and look and

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take pictures and a lot of times i can't

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tell exactly where i am and i have to go

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to a map and i look at it and i

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recognize uh the names of countries that

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i learned when i was in school and now i

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can go out and look out the window and

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just by looking at the the the landscape

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and the colors of the earth

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and the shapes of the of the coastlines

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i can i can tell where we are and so

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my name is liam death spot i am in third

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third grade my question

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space station it can be very cold and it

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where the sun is if we're in the shade

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suits not only to provide our air but to

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to constant as possible now here inside

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the space station it's room temperature

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hello my name is ethan halsewig and i'm

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in fifth grade my question is how is

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your research going to the international

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our research is going very well we have

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at any one time about 150 different

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experiments going on

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involved in personally and a lot of them

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were not some of them we just hook up

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experiments in some of these racks that

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you see on the walls here and then

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they're completely controlled by the

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ground some of the experiments we do on

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ourselves and so there's a lot going on

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and it's all going very well and i think

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the scientists that are on earth are

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learning a lot and pretty excited about

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hi my name is ashley rasmussen and i am

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my question is do you use robotics in

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we absolutely do in fact we just use our

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robotic arm that's on the outside of the

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space station yesterday we had a cargo

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vehicle that brought us some supplies

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couple weeks ago and we used the robotic

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arm to reach out and grab it after it

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had come close to the space station well

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that robotic arm was also used in

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building the space station the space

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shuttle also had a robotic arm and we

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would bring up all of these huge modules

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of the space station in the space

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shuttle and use those two robotic arms

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to link all the pieces of the space

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hello my name is destiny ceno and i am

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my question is what teacher influenced

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well i've certainly had a lot of

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fantastic teachers through through

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elementary school high school and

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college i don't know if i can pinpoint

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that the teachers that demanded the most

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of me and expected the most of me are

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generally the ones that probably could

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be credited for making me helping me

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make the choices that i made i think

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at the henning school district did that

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they made sure that they expected the

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out of all of their students and if you

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weren't performing as well as they knew

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you could they tried to make you perform

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better and i think that that definitely

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helped me

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to um to become what i am and and

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actually make it in the career that i

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hello my name is megan rennicker and i

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am in fifth grade my question is what

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types of food do you eat aboard the

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we actually have a huge variety of food

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our food is packed

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in pouches like this this happens to be

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one of my favorites it's red beans and

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rice i like it because it's spicy

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and we also have a lot a lot of our

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meats are packed like this

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we have everything from steak to pork

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chops to fajitas and a lot of our fruit

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is packed like this as well we only get

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fresh fruit every so often when a

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vehicle comes up

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we also have a lot of food that's like

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this and this is dehydrated meaning we

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creamed spinach it doesn't necessarily

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sound tasty but it is very very tasty

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and we also our drinks we have a lot of

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different drinks and we have those

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this this happens to be an orange mango

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drink so we have a lot of food to choose

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hello my name is mackenzie vorderbergen

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what does it feel like when you lift off

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it's actually an incredible feeling i've

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been fortunate enough now to ride on two

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different rockets i flew on the space

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shuttle back in 2008 and now the soyuz

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rocket just earlier in the year

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and the space shuttle is a lot bigger

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than the soyuz but they're very similar

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in how they feel

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usually the engines start a few seconds

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before you actually lift off the pad and

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you can feel the vibration

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you can you can tell that the vehicle's

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alive and fluid is pumping and then once

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you go

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it's um it's boom and you start feeling

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uh the gravity pull the the g's pulling

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as you're going faster and faster and

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you feel really really heavy in your

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and then at a certain point once part of

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the one of the engines has

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used all of its fuel that portion of the

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of the rocket will separate and then you

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kind of you feel like this almost like

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you're going over a roller coaster the

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top of a roller coaster for a second and

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then you start feeling very heavy again

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and uh it's quite an experience and

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again it's another one of those that i

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hello karen my name is marjorie quam and

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i was one of your former english

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teachers my question is

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how is what you are currently doing on

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this mission going to impact life on

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hi mrs kwamen you were one of those who

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definitely expected the most out of

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everybody so thank you

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a lot of the stuff we do

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a lot of the research we do one of the

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things about about doing the research

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here in space

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is that gravity is a very very strong

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component of how things work when we're

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on earth like you look at a fluid we're

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doing some experiments with fluids that

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have little particles in them well when

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you're on earth these particles are

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affected so much by gravity that it's

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hard to tell what's happening how

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they're interacting with each other so

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when you do the experiments here on the

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space station you can look at how they

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uh interact with each other and how they

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interact with the fluid and then you can

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optimize the way that they work on the

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ground and a lot of that work like

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stabilizers for some of how your

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household products shampoos and laundry

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detergents and things like that

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so that's one of the big things that how

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you know doing this research we do here

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can benefit and be used um on the earth

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and another big thing is the human

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research one example of that is

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here on the space station i talked about

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using your bones and muscles and losing

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them we lose bone mass at a rate 10

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times higher than an elderly woman with

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osteoporosis so this is the perfect

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place for us to study

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what kind of

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measures we can take to mitigate bone

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loss and hopefully some of the research

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we do then can be used for folks on the

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on the earth who are suffering with

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hello my name is jenna volkman and i am

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in third grade my question is are

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shooting stars prettier in space than

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well the interesting thing about

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shooting stars is when we see them we

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see them below us because the shooting

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star is actually a meteor that's coming

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through the earth's atmosphere and

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that's why it's burning as it's coming

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through the earth's atmosphere well we

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are above the earth's atmosphere so when

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we look down is when we would see

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shooting stars so in that way they're

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pretty in a different way than what you

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see when you're when you're on the

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hello my name is reed humula and i am in

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fifth grade my question is how long did

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it took us in the soyuz rocket about six

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hours

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and it took us once we launched from the

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earth it was about eight minutes or so

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before we were in orbit around the earth

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and then we orbited the earth doing uh

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during burns of our jets to get closer

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and closer to the space station and it

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was about four orbits around the earth

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and each one about 90 minutes so it was

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about six hours and we were here so it

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was a you know a trip to minneapolis and

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hello my name is amanda otto and i am in

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ninth grade my question is what is the

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i'm sorry can you say that one more time

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what is the scariest part of being in

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the scariest part of being in space well

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certainly

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um if you allow yourself to get scared

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there's a there's a lot that you could

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be scared of i think we are in a very

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dangerous environment and i know anytime

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you're you're facing any danger there's

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the reaction that you would like to get

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scared but we get prepared very very

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well for this and we have a lot of um

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preparations that we do

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that

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if if we happen to have a leak in the

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space station because this is protecting

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us from the vacuum of space where we

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could not survive without the space

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station around us

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but so i think the key to being prepared

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and not being or to not being scared is

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to be prepared and we go through a lot

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of emergency drills where we we look at

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what we're going to do if say there's a

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fire on board because we can't just

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leave the house like you would at home

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and so

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so the key is to be prepared and there's

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really if you're prepared there's not a

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hello my name is brett clard and i am in

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third grade my question is is it worth

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that's a fantastic question and i

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personally think it is

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i think it's definitely worth it

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i think that the things that we will get

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out of this and not just the research

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that we're doing this is just the

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exploring and the going away from home

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and doing things

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doing things that make your mind sharper

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and definitely space exploration is

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something that we not only get out of it

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the scientific results but also for our

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own for our own human human nature of

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wanting to explore wanting to go further

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and wanting to do more so i personally

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think it is well worth the work that we

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thank you for taking the time to

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answer our questions karen do you have

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any closing remarks for any of your

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thank you so much for for joining me

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here i'm really excited i was excited

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when i saw this on the schedule that i

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was going to be able to join all of you

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and

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you know hopefully hopefully what i'm

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doing here i i hope i can inspire you

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and the kids there um you know you guys

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are capable of so much and it really is

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a matter of working your hardest and

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showing people that that you have what

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it takes to do whatever your dream job

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is and it doesn't have to be astronaut

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it can be just about anything you want

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to do and if you work at it and let

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people know that you're willing to work

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at it you're going to go really far in

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your life i'm so glad i was able to join

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you guys today

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bye bye

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the event thank you

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thank you heading school district