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hello to everyone joining nasa in this

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google plus hangout

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i'm expedition 38 flight engineer mike

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hopkins aboard the international space

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on behalf of my crewmates i would like

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to wish this amazing complex a very

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the xera module was launched into orbit

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on november 20th 1998 along with the u.s

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unity and russia's vista modules these

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first components enabled expedition 1 to

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begin on november 2nd 2000 to mark the

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start of permanent human presence in

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since then more than 200 people have

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visited the station from nations around

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the world

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as well as a variety of international

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and commercial spacecraft including the

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dragon and cygnus capsules from nasa's

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the international space station stands

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testament for worldwide cooperation a

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providing ground for science and human

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innovation and a test bed for the

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technologies we will need as we planned

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thanks for the first 15 years and here's

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hello hey everybody how are you out

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good to see you

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you guys are looking great out there

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especially the guy on the uh maroon

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oh hey i'm chris i'm leland

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we're really excited to be here 15 years

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of the anniversary of the space station

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going up and uh chris just came back

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with a few months ago yeah just two

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there for six months and uh happy to be

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back on earth and i feel just like my

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normal self again you look good man yeah

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you too well you know i have to suck

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into my flight so you know bureaucrat

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for a little while

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yeah so you guys got some questions out

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hello and welcome to today's google plus

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hangout

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so we're going to be joining uh chris

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cassidy here with a 6th grade science

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class here you guys may have already

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seen them um and they are

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hello this is miss casey hines in her

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sixth grade science class

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additionally we're joined by two

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astronauts astronaut chris cassidy and

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astronaut lela melvin today here in nasa

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tv studios

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questions from social media we're going

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to be taking questions using the hashtag

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ask nasa

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twitter on facebook or google plus we're

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going to be getting to your questions um

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at the top here though we want to go

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ahead and hear a little bit about

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somebody who just uh came back from

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outer space from the international space

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station we're gonna hear a little bit

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from astronaut chris cassidy who

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hello everybody again really it's so

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cool to be talking with you because i'm

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so excited about my experiences that i

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just had on the space station just a

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phenomenal place uh to be about the size

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if you can see it out there but about

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the size of a whole entire football

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field or a five-bedroom house it's a

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gigantic complex and uh

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is on a russian soyuz rocket a tiny

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little three-person spaceship with we

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sit shoulder to shoulder about we put

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another guy in between leland and i and

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and just squished in there on our backs

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for about two hours before liftoff three

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two one blast off we go into the middle

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of night in kazakhstan about three hours

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we did a new thing on our rendezvous we

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hours typically you launch you go to bed

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rendezvous i mean lily and you've done

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then we do some pressure checks and open

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shadfield has a big black bushy mustache

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live how do you float around how do

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where's your stuff where's your clothes

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where's your food you spend the first

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day just learning where all your

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creature comfort things are and how to

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more comfortable floating around and

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maneuvering in the space station without

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this robot here is called robonaut he's

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a pretty cool guy you can look through

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the visors that we see and you see what

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he sees and move his arms his arms match

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what yours do we did a lot of

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sized satellites and maintenance of

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course is what we have that silver box

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that you just saw was the device that

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turns yesterday's pea into today's

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drinking water and i swear the machine

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experiment and we don't certainly keep

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cabin flame but experiments and research

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the week doing just that this is the

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cupola an amazing view down at the at

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florida at night that's not florida but

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that's a river at night just incredible

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space was my italian cremate luca he's

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him at the door with a bald head and the

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same cheesy goatee mustache that he

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kind of like yours and that's the two of

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us saying hi um about halfway through my

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mission when we rotated out the cruise

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we luke and i got to do a couple space

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walks together as well um

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water that was leaking in his backpack

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the cooling water that keeps us our body

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temperature right the water was leaking

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into his air that was coming into his

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helmet so his helmet was filling up with

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water and instead of

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oxygen which was a really scary

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situation we got him back inside and you

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russian guys and karen getting ready to

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take his helmet off and and

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we need a lot of equipment to come up on

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the space station including food that

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equipment for experiments and whatnot

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and their various cargo ships come and

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go from the space station they spend

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then we send them on their way to a

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fiery death that you just saw there in

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the in the video as they burn up in the

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atmosphere and of course exercise is a

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exercise a lot and we do that a couple

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hours every day on the space station not

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only keep our muscles strong but to keep

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our bones healthy that's a really really

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important thing for us to do

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and then coming back into the atmosphere

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fire that you see on launch all that

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vehicle and you do that as you pound

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be we spent some time in a couple weeks

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the opportunity to come back home

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maine you can't escape transportation

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really really cool to be here today and

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share a little bit of that with you guys

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and i don't know if we're taking

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questions now or or or what but that's

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with the nasa social media team and we

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have our first question from google plus

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it's sion o'regan who asks uh with the

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year-long mission iss coming up in a few

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years do you feel that now is the right

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this and what do you think will be the

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all the best from ireland

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yeah so that's a good question and uh

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scott kelly is our colleague that will

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be doing that on the nasa side there's a

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a russian cosmonaut that will be joining

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him and and my my um experience

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coming home day the day i came home as

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what would i think if i was halfway done

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evening and kick back and watch monday

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of the year to have a three-day weekend

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every month because you really need a

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you know a good charge every sunday a

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sunday is a really good nice recharge

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and have an extra sunday uh thrown in

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the mix every now and then i think would

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go a long way to to recharge you but to

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specifically answer your question now is

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a great time to do it i think we'll uh

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you know we'll

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get a little bit more data on some of

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the medical science that we already are

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know about and and sharpen our pencils

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on what we've learned and confirm

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all that and it'll be exciting to see

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how it works out for those guys

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and for the students out there that are

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going to go to mars one day we got to

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get ready for that longer much longer

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trip than one year so we're testing

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things out for the bodies and the

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equipment and so forth to get us ready

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okay thanks can i take a question from

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casey hines sixth grade students at

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northland preparatory academy in

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hi my name is zoey um so chris what

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things changed when you went from a navy

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seal to an astronaut

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yeah that's a good question i'm often

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i'm often asked that because people

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think underwater and you know seals you

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know breathing scuba gear how does that

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relate to being an astronaut but

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what changed specifically was um

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not a whole lot i'm still the same

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person but what i brought to the

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astronaut

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office was my experiences that that uh i

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think really set me up to be a good

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operator in space that's what we do when

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we're up there is

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we fix broken things we think about a

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problem um logically and analytically

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and uh time in the military for me was

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what helped me do that and i happened to

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spend my years in the seal teams but the

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people get that experience in various

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backgrounds um and and leland has his

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own uh story to tell about his path of

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getting there and uh but this what

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changed

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i feel not a whole lot i was still the

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same guy i was still the same dad to my

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kids my daughter was a fifth grade

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student that's just a year younger than

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you guys when we showed up there in

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houston texas and now she's a big big

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kid in college so the times that gone by

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okay we'll come back to the prep school

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in a minute but uh there's a question

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from twitter and leland this one's kind

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of interesting we had a

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uh a gamma ray burst announcement

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earlier today and uh s swobels 59ms

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would it be possible for an astronaut to

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be on a spacewalk to become the hulk

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exposed to gamma radiation and uh i know

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you want to talk about uh some of the

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challenges in human space flight and the

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uh the exploration challenge on space

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radiation great well i really hope that

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gamma ray burst wouldn't cause you to be

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the hull because you go out of your suit

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you

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need a little bit of problem there with

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uh no air in space and the vacuum of

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space but one of the things that we're

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having to look at is yeah there's the

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hulk right there one of the things to

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look at for the future

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is how do we send astronauts on these

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long duration flights to mars you know

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an eight-month trip

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and have to go through these serious

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radiation challenges and what we're

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challenging many of you students out

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there with is something called the

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exploration design challenge where you

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can actually be part of our virtual crew

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of astronauts but we're going to have

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you doing assignments learning about

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radiation learning about how to build

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radiation shields so that when

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astronauts go to mars we'll actually be

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shielded from that and so if you're in

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middle school k through k through eighth

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grade you can actually do some projects

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and actually have your name fly on the

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next vehicle that's gonna go up from

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america is the orion capsule

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if you're in high school you can

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actually build a radiation shield and

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this radiation shield if you win the

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down select that shield will go on the

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orion capsule which is flying the fall

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of next year and so we'll put a

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radiation sensor behind it we'll

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actually measure how effective your

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radiation shield is you will be actually

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doing hands-on experiential activities

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which will fly in space so for those of

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you who haven't signed up for the

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expiration design challenge

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go to nasa.gov education and take a look

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and sign up and be part of this mission

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we have a video from one of my

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classmates suni williams who was on

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space for about six months so take a

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nasa is currently developing a new heavy

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lift rocket to carry a human-rated

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spacecraft called orion multi-purpose

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crew vehicle

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orion will support deep space missions

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to asteroids

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the moon

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and mars

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we are building an exciting future of

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discovery science and exploration that

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will challenge our world through lessons

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we are learning today

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the international space station is

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helping prepare for these steps further

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into space hi my name is sunny williams

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i'm a flight engineer on the

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international space station outside the

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protection of earth's atmosphere is a

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universe full of radiation it's

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everywhere

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space radiation sometimes called cosmic

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radiation is different from the types of

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radiation you find on earth it has very

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different effect on human dna cells and

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tissues and it's very difficult to

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predict the long-term effects of space

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radiation on the human body

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because of this uncertainty we are

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running experiments to learn more about

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radiation

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small others are a little bit bigger

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outside of the space station we also

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have materials international space

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station experiment 8 called missy 8 and

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it's also gathering data to help us

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understand radiation protection required

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for interplanetary flight we are

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charting a pathway for your generation's

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journey further into space and we need

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your help

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so get involved with nasa's newest

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design challenge the exploration design

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challenge this challenge is charting

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your journey to mars tracking one of the

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major challenges to deep space long

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duration exploration

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namely the dangers associated with

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radiation

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and the need to protect our astronauts

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as they venture into places never

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visited by humans before

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register now for the exploration design

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challenge you and your team may be the

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student engineers who help nasa develop

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the technology needed to protect

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astronauts from space radiation as they

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travel to the moon asteroids and mars

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aboard the orion

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so we need your help out there you know

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chris and i we may not go to mars one

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day but it's going to be one of you out

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there and you can start building your

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spaceship now with this exploration

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design challenge so

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thanks that that video reminded me of

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something isn't it neat when you're

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trying to go to sleep and you're seeing

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those glasses of light fly through your

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eyeball what does it like to look like

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green green flashes like little flashes

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and i think it's the radiation or the

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particles or something but the particle

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is hitting your optical nerve and making

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you think you're seeing

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okay yeah but it's it's really kind of a

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strange thing the first couple nights

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you try to go to sleep and you're seeing

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that

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thanks guys why don't we go back to uh

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the sixth grade students at northland

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hi i'm casey um so i've been reading

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chris hadfield's new book and i've

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learned a lot about how many years go

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into your actual training for your

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missions how do you make time for kids

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and family when you're prepping for a

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um well i'll answer that because i have

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three kids and just completed the two

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and a half year

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lead up to a six months mission and then

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the six month

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mission itself and it is an

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international space station which means

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it's international training half of our

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time about is in houston and about half

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is in um star city which is near moscow

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and then a few other trips we have to

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japan for the japanese space agency

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equipment and to germany where the

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european space

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agency trains their astronauts so it's a

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lot of travel and you're exactly right

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uh we our own families are affected by

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all that travel they're excited for us

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for the most part to be involved in an

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exciting mission but at the end of the

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day we're still a family unit and and uh

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talking communicating taking advantage

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of things like technology like this

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facetime skype google uh chat and that

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sort of thing

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is how we stayed in touch and uh and i

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could be

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just as much part of long grass in a

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green pool

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from a far away

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as if i was at home so barbecue yeah

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barbecue and all that sort of thing so

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that's a really good question and

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but the other thing is you know when

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when chris is away we're all part of an

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extended family so

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if if his wife and kids are needing help

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or something we're all part of this one

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big team together so we're we're helping

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good question

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can we have fun

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we've on twitter from den fym says hi

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chris and leland do the medical results

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of the effects of microgravity indicate

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i you want to hit it from a long

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duration yeah i'll hit it from the long

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duration side of things and uh

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you know we we have um

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we basically go by the same standards

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that a worker in a

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nuclear power plant or or navy sailor on

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a nuclear submarine goes by and and we

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wear a little device that detects how

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much radiation we're getting we wear

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that on our on our belt the whole time

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during during the mission so there's a

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cumulative known quantity on that exact

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mission and then they for future

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missions they'll predict out how much we

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would incur if we went again for

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instance and

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and uh scott kelly will be going for a

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year so part of his medical assessment

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to see if he was certified for to fly

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again is to make was to make sure that

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the predicted amount of radiation that

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he would receive during that one year is

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still going to be below the lifetime

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okay we have a question from melissa

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abernath who says her first graders uh

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would like to know how do you survive in

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space and what if you do if you're

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well

553
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surviving in space is you know we have a

554
00:22:38,549 --> 00:22:36,080
team of people on the ground that are

555
00:22:41,350 --> 00:22:38,559
really looking out after all of our all

556
00:22:43,350 --> 00:22:41,360
of our medical uh

557
00:22:44,870 --> 00:22:43,360
changes they're also looking at it you

558
00:22:46,470 --> 00:22:44,880
know chris is doing a space walk out

559
00:22:48,630 --> 00:22:46,480
there they're monitoring everything and

560
00:22:50,470 --> 00:22:48,640
making sure that everything is okay um

561
00:22:52,149 --> 00:22:50,480
but i i think the

562
00:22:54,390 --> 00:22:52,159
the main thing is before you sign up to

563
00:22:56,310 --> 00:22:54,400
become an astronaut you you've tried to

564
00:22:57,590 --> 00:22:56,320
get rid of all your fear you know we put

565
00:22:59,270 --> 00:22:57,600
they put you in this little sphere to

566
00:23:00,710 --> 00:22:59,280
see if you're claustrophobic so you're

567
00:23:02,710 --> 00:23:00,720
not going to be afraid of being in small

568
00:23:04,789 --> 00:23:02,720
spaces or you get kind of booted out

569
00:23:06,870 --> 00:23:04,799
from the beginning but you know we have

570
00:23:08,710 --> 00:23:06,880
the training is so good that you know

571
00:23:10,310 --> 00:23:08,720
when i was flying the robotic arm

572
00:23:11,669 --> 00:23:10,320
installing the uh the columbus

573
00:23:14,070 --> 00:23:11,679
laboratory from the european space

574
00:23:15,590 --> 00:23:14,080
agency you know my one of my german

575
00:23:17,510 --> 00:23:15,600
flight controller friends when i first

576
00:23:21,190 --> 00:23:17,520
got that assignment he said leland we've

577
00:23:23,270 --> 00:23:21,200
been waiting 10 years don't screw it up

578
00:23:25,029 --> 00:23:23,280
so i'm sitting here flying this module

579
00:23:26,710 --> 00:23:25,039
into the space station knowing that if i

580
00:23:28,230 --> 00:23:26,720
did something wrong i could damage that

581
00:23:30,470 --> 00:23:28,240
and cause people have to go home in a

582
00:23:32,230 --> 00:23:30,480
hurry but the training is so good that

583
00:23:34,950 --> 00:23:32,240
you just you just keep doing it and you

584
00:23:37,190 --> 00:23:34,960
you just you just you just rock it so i

585
00:23:39,350 --> 00:23:37,200
think you know when when uh we had the

586
00:23:40,549 --> 00:23:39,360
problem with the the eva with the water

587
00:23:42,950 --> 00:23:40,559
in the suit there were some people that

588
00:23:44,630 --> 00:23:42,960
may have been a little scared there but

589
00:23:47,110 --> 00:23:44,640
my neighbor's still here to save the day

590
00:23:48,870 --> 00:23:47,120
calm cool collected and uh you know the

591
00:23:53,270 --> 00:23:48,880
training kicks in it keeps you from

592
00:23:57,029 --> 00:23:54,710
okay thanks

593
00:23:59,270 --> 00:23:57,039
another question from twitter it's lily

594
00:24:01,110 --> 00:23:59,280
underscore hgs

595
00:24:02,390 --> 00:24:01,120
what is the hardest thing to adapt to in

596
00:24:06,549 --> 00:24:02,400
zero g

597
00:24:07,590 --> 00:24:06,559
if you're alpha yeah

598
00:24:08,549 --> 00:24:07,600
yeah

599
00:24:11,430 --> 00:24:08,559
um

600
00:24:14,310 --> 00:24:11,440
so that that's a great question and and

601
00:24:16,789 --> 00:24:14,320
um i would say

602
00:24:19,350 --> 00:24:16,799
it's dealing with small pieces and parts

603
00:24:21,510 --> 00:24:19,360
of of something whether that be

604
00:24:23,830 --> 00:24:21,520
repairing a piece of equipment and you

605
00:24:26,149 --> 00:24:23,840
have screws and springs that weren't

606
00:24:28,310 --> 00:24:26,159
intended to be removed in zero gravity

607
00:24:30,789 --> 00:24:28,320
how do you manage all that stuff for the

608
00:24:32,789 --> 00:24:30,799
most part equipment is designed in such

609
00:24:35,350 --> 00:24:32,799
a way that if it needs to be repaired

610
00:24:37,350 --> 00:24:35,360
you can remove some screws that are kept

611
00:24:39,269 --> 00:24:37,360
in the spot that they are uh and they

612
00:24:40,789 --> 00:24:39,279
remain in that spot and you pull it out

613
00:24:43,510 --> 00:24:40,799
but every now and then we have these

614
00:24:46,950 --> 00:24:43,520
issues where things can kind of float

615
00:24:49,590 --> 00:24:46,960
away and and you have to get tricky with

616
00:24:51,590 --> 00:24:49,600
duct tape and the use of vacuum cleaners

617
00:24:53,990 --> 00:24:51,600
you can put a mesh screen over vacuum

618
00:24:56,149 --> 00:24:54,000
cleaner and hold you use that to hold

619
00:24:56,950 --> 00:24:56,159
pieces of parts down

620
00:24:59,190 --> 00:24:56,960
but

621
00:25:01,430 --> 00:24:59,200
it takes a few weeks or a month or so to

622
00:25:03,269 --> 00:25:01,440
get used to the tricks of the trade to

623
00:25:05,590 --> 00:25:03,279
manage all that um

624
00:25:06,390 --> 00:25:05,600
the desire of things to float away on

625
00:25:09,029 --> 00:25:06,400
you

626
00:25:10,630 --> 00:25:09,039
like the blood draws and the biomedical

627
00:25:12,470 --> 00:25:10,640
types of things and the hardest thing

628
00:25:13,830 --> 00:25:12,480
for me was really you know going to the

629
00:25:15,909 --> 00:25:13,840
bathroom in zero g because you can't

630
00:25:21,430 --> 00:25:15,919
practice out on the ground so

631
00:25:27,110 --> 00:25:23,590
thanks guys uh next question uh it's

632
00:25:28,630 --> 00:25:27,120
from twitter jnla vazquez as a teacher

633
00:25:29,510 --> 00:25:28,640
asked one of my sixth graders wants to

634
00:25:30,710 --> 00:25:29,520
know

635
00:25:32,149 --> 00:25:30,720
you had asked this all the time i'm sure

636
00:25:35,350 --> 00:25:32,159
want to know if you if you've ever seen

637
00:25:38,310 --> 00:25:35,360
evidence of life while in space

638
00:25:40,390 --> 00:25:38,320
well i uh my first flight i was i was in

639
00:25:41,590 --> 00:25:40,400
the back in the flight deck on the

640
00:25:43,430 --> 00:25:41,600
shuttle looking out the back we're

641
00:25:46,310 --> 00:25:43,440
opening the payload bay doors

642
00:25:48,630 --> 00:25:46,320
and we were looking at this white thing

643
00:25:51,269 --> 00:25:48,640
that was kind of floating and turning

644
00:25:52,789 --> 00:25:51,279
and it had kind of curvaceousness to it

645
00:25:54,549 --> 00:25:52,799
and we didn't know what it was it looked

646
00:25:56,390 --> 00:25:54,559
like almost like gastly coming up like a

647
00:25:59,110 --> 00:25:56,400
little ghostly and it was actually ice

648
00:26:01,029 --> 00:25:59,120
that had formed around the the hoses

649
00:26:03,430 --> 00:26:01,039
that were on the uh on the payload bay

650
00:26:05,110 --> 00:26:03,440
doors but none of us had ever seen that

651
00:26:07,269 --> 00:26:05,120
before and we were like what is that it

652
00:26:09,029 --> 00:26:07,279
looked look kind of in a way human-like

653
00:26:10,390 --> 00:26:09,039
but uh but when we called down to the

654
00:26:11,350 --> 00:26:10,400
ground they kind of told us what it was

655
00:26:12,470 --> 00:26:11,360
and but

656
00:26:13,590 --> 00:26:12,480
uh

657
00:26:16,390 --> 00:26:13,600
i don't know if you've seen anything up

658
00:26:18,149 --> 00:26:16,400
there i haven't seen seen anything we we

659
00:26:20,549 --> 00:26:18,159
saw a similar time looking out the

660
00:26:23,190 --> 00:26:20,559
window a cover was floating away and we

661
00:26:25,750 --> 00:26:23,200
said it was an unidentified thing but it

662
00:26:27,590 --> 00:26:25,760
certainly wasn't an unidentified object

663
00:26:29,430 --> 00:26:27,600
with any life to it

664
00:26:31,669 --> 00:26:29,440
now i did get a question from a student

665
00:26:33,909 --> 00:26:31,679
i was at a school here in dc

666
00:26:36,630 --> 00:26:33,919
and the uh the student asked me that if

667
00:26:38,310 --> 00:26:36,640
i'd ever seen an alien with pink

668
00:26:39,190 --> 00:26:38,320
lipstick

669
00:26:40,470 --> 00:26:39,200
no

670
00:26:48,549 --> 00:26:40,480
they wear red

671
00:26:53,269 --> 00:26:50,710
we'll go back to the class in a second

672
00:26:55,750 --> 00:26:53,279
but uh here's a class uh miss uh sees

673
00:26:57,590 --> 00:26:55,760
class one ass on twitter

674
00:27:00,870 --> 00:26:57,600
it's a first grade class wants to know

675
00:27:03,669 --> 00:27:00,880
how long it takes to get into space

676
00:27:05,909 --> 00:27:03,679
so really good question it it uh

677
00:27:07,669 --> 00:27:05,919
it seems like it's as far away place it

678
00:27:09,750 --> 00:27:07,679
would take forever to get to but we like

679
00:27:11,430 --> 00:27:09,760
that rocket and it and it is going for

680
00:27:13,190 --> 00:27:11,440
about eight and a half or nine minutes

681
00:27:14,470 --> 00:27:13,200
and the engine cuts off and we're in

682
00:27:16,549 --> 00:27:14,480
zero gravity

683
00:27:19,430 --> 00:27:16,559
and uh so it's a pretty quick ride

684
00:27:21,590 --> 00:27:19,440
believe it or not and and um but we do

685
00:27:23,269 --> 00:27:21,600
us a few more maneuvers after that

686
00:27:25,750 --> 00:27:23,279
initial eight minutes to get us in a

687
00:27:28,149 --> 00:27:25,760
more safe position

688
00:27:29,750 --> 00:27:28,159
to get our uh ourselves to the altitude

689
00:27:32,310 --> 00:27:29,760
particularly to rendezvous to the space

690
00:27:35,750 --> 00:27:32,320
station these days which is about 200

691
00:27:37,590 --> 00:27:35,760
250 miles above the surface of our

692
00:27:39,750 --> 00:27:37,600
planet so that's how long it takes to

693
00:27:45,830 --> 00:27:39,760
get there and uh and it's a really fun

694
00:27:53,029 --> 00:27:47,750
okay thanks so why don't we go back to

695
00:27:56,789 --> 00:27:54,549
see you now that's you okay ask your

696
00:27:59,110 --> 00:27:56,799
question hi my name is santo i just

697
00:28:00,470 --> 00:27:59,120
wanted to ask what inspired you to be an

698
00:28:01,590 --> 00:28:00,480
astronaut

699
00:28:04,070 --> 00:28:01,600
hmm

700
00:28:06,549 --> 00:28:04,080
donto uh good question

701
00:28:08,870 --> 00:28:06,559
i well i worked at nasa for about 10

702
00:28:10,149 --> 00:28:08,880
years before um you know before i

703
00:28:11,750 --> 00:28:10,159
thought about applying to the astronaut

704
00:28:14,789 --> 00:28:11,760
corps and a friend of mine charlie

705
00:28:16,630 --> 00:28:14,799
camarda he was uh you know he was he'd

706
00:28:18,549 --> 00:28:16,640
applied he got in a friend of mine said

707
00:28:20,070 --> 00:28:18,559
you'd be a great astronaut and i i never

708
00:28:22,630 --> 00:28:20,080
really thought about myself as becoming

709
00:28:24,389 --> 00:28:22,640
an astronaut and so after charlie got in

710
00:28:26,070 --> 00:28:24,399
he told me about all the fantastic

711
00:28:27,990 --> 00:28:26,080
things he was doing his flying jets and

712
00:28:29,269 --> 00:28:28,000
he was doing these you know spacewalk

713
00:28:30,470 --> 00:28:29,279
training and all these different things

714
00:28:32,789 --> 00:28:30,480
i said well maybe that's something i

715
00:28:34,070 --> 00:28:32,799
should try to try to go after so it

716
00:28:35,750 --> 00:28:34,080
wasn't something that i've always wanted

717
00:28:37,430 --> 00:28:35,760
to do as a child but i think through my

718
00:28:38,950 --> 00:28:37,440
career as a site

719
00:28:40,549 --> 00:28:38,960
here and playing some professional

720
00:28:41,909 --> 00:28:40,559
football getting all the teamwork part

721
00:28:44,549 --> 00:28:41,919
of it because i think one of the biggest

722
00:28:46,230 --> 00:28:44,559
parts of of what we do in space now you

723
00:28:48,310 --> 00:28:46,240
know chris being a navy seal working

724
00:28:49,269 --> 00:28:48,320
together as a team helping save people's

725
00:28:51,029 --> 00:28:49,279
lives

726
00:28:52,149 --> 00:28:51,039
it all has to do with working together

727
00:28:54,070 --> 00:28:52,159
and saving people's lives on space

728
00:28:55,990 --> 00:28:54,080
station too so i think

729
00:28:57,430 --> 00:28:56,000
all my experiences kind of led me to

730
00:28:58,549 --> 00:28:57,440
that but it wasn't something i've always

731
00:29:00,149 --> 00:28:58,559
wanted to do i don't know is that

732
00:29:02,310 --> 00:29:00,159
something you always wanted to do no i'm

733
00:29:04,389 --> 00:29:02,320
kind of like you i was a little bit

734
00:29:06,389 --> 00:29:04,399
older um when i met bill shepard

735
00:29:09,110 --> 00:29:06,399
actually uh another

736
00:29:11,510 --> 00:29:09,120
um astronaut who was in the seal teams

737
00:29:13,909 --> 00:29:11,520
before coming to nasa and

738
00:29:15,830 --> 00:29:13,919
when i met him and realized that my

739
00:29:17,269 --> 00:29:15,840
background was kind of similar and it's

740
00:29:19,669 --> 00:29:17,279
actually just an application that

741
00:29:21,430 --> 00:29:19,679
anybody can fill out right that's i

742
00:29:22,630 --> 00:29:21,440
thought huh i might as well try i've got

743
00:29:25,029 --> 00:29:22,640
nothing to lose i was thoroughly

744
00:29:26,149 --> 00:29:25,039
enjoying my time in the navy so if i

745
00:29:27,750 --> 00:29:26,159
didn't get picked i was just going to

746
00:29:29,750 --> 00:29:27,760
continue doing that if i did get picked

747
00:29:32,470 --> 00:29:29,760
it would be really an exciting career so

748
00:29:34,870 --> 00:29:32,480
that was 1999. you were driving from

749
00:29:37,350 --> 00:29:34,880
maine to san diego to san diego and

750
00:29:40,230 --> 00:29:37,360
where we first first met yeah and then

751
00:29:41,750 --> 00:29:40,240
chef and i head over to uh to star city

752
00:29:42,789 --> 00:29:41,760
to actually get him ready for his launch

753
00:29:44,950 --> 00:29:42,799
to be the first commander of the

754
00:29:48,549 --> 00:29:44,960
international space station 15 years ago

755
00:29:49,830 --> 00:29:48,559
right ten years ago how about that wow

756
00:29:53,430 --> 00:29:49,840
let's take another question for more

757
00:29:59,590 --> 00:29:55,909
hi my name is chloe um what type of

758
00:30:01,029 --> 00:29:59,600
experiments are being run on the iss

759
00:30:03,029 --> 00:30:01,039
well um

760
00:30:05,269 --> 00:30:03,039
there's there's many there's and there's

761
00:30:07,269 --> 00:30:05,279
they come in several different size

762
00:30:08,710 --> 00:30:07,279
shapes and forms some of them

763
00:30:11,510 --> 00:30:08,720
where we

764
00:30:14,470 --> 00:30:11,520
install and just activate them and they

765
00:30:16,070 --> 00:30:14,480
tend to themselves there's others where

766
00:30:18,070 --> 00:30:16,080
we'll be actively involved in

767
00:30:19,669 --> 00:30:18,080
manipulating that experiment and other

768
00:30:22,310 --> 00:30:19,679
other ones where they're just outside

769
00:30:25,909 --> 00:30:22,320
and the crew really doesn't uh interact

770
00:30:28,389 --> 00:30:25,919
at all and the types of them the that

771
00:30:30,389 --> 00:30:28,399
that i worked on most recently

772
00:30:31,990 --> 00:30:30,399
a lot on ourselves you know we had one

773
00:30:33,430 --> 00:30:32,000
where we varied our diet and took

774
00:30:35,269 --> 00:30:33,440
different

775
00:30:37,190 --> 00:30:35,279
samples of our blood and urine at

776
00:30:40,310 --> 00:30:37,200
different times and to see what the

777
00:30:41,909 --> 00:30:40,320
effects of the different diet

778
00:30:43,430 --> 00:30:41,919
really balancing the potassium and

779
00:30:45,990 --> 00:30:43,440
protein but anyways

780
00:30:48,149 --> 00:30:46,000
different diet things and

781
00:30:50,310 --> 00:30:48,159
and then how does our bone loss decay

782
00:30:52,149 --> 00:30:50,320
over the time while we're there so we

783
00:30:54,950 --> 00:30:52,159
take ultrasound images of different

784
00:30:57,669 --> 00:30:54,960
parts of our body our hips our spine and

785
00:31:00,470 --> 00:30:57,679
we'll analyze analyze that

786
00:31:02,549 --> 00:31:00,480
i also was part of an experiment called

787
00:31:04,230 --> 00:31:02,559
bass which

788
00:31:06,710 --> 00:31:04,240
there we tested the combustion

789
00:31:09,669 --> 00:31:06,720
properties how what materials are safer

790
00:31:11,190 --> 00:31:09,679
to protect you against the fire um while

791
00:31:12,549 --> 00:31:11,200
you're in space because the flames do

792
00:31:14,149 --> 00:31:12,559
really interesting things i don't know

793
00:31:16,950 --> 00:31:14,159
if we have any footage of flames in

794
00:31:18,470 --> 00:31:16,960
space but they form like a sphere or a

795
00:31:21,110 --> 00:31:18,480
ball instead of the shape that we

796
00:31:22,789 --> 00:31:21,120
typically know of a candle uh as it

797
00:31:24,310 --> 00:31:22,799
would be here here on earth you haven't

798
00:31:26,710 --> 00:31:24,320
seen the movie gravity yet but i haven't

799
00:31:29,510 --> 00:31:26,720
seen a little fire in gravity that looks

800
00:31:31,430 --> 00:31:29,520
fairly real fairly real very good

801
00:31:32,710 --> 00:31:31,440
and uh so a whole host of other ones

802
00:31:35,590 --> 00:31:32,720
some fluid there's a really cool

803
00:31:37,669 --> 00:31:35,600
experiment we did that

804
00:31:40,149 --> 00:31:37,679
we can you turns out you can vary the

805
00:31:42,950 --> 00:31:40,159
shape of a container of liquid

806
00:31:44,789 --> 00:31:42,960
and and that shape will drive the fluid

807
00:31:47,909 --> 00:31:44,799
in different places if you shape it kind

808
00:31:49,990 --> 00:31:47,919
of like a teardrop the fluid wants to go

809
00:31:52,710 --> 00:31:50,000
in the pointy part of the teardrop and

810
00:31:54,950 --> 00:31:52,720
and you can have a fuel tank that

811
00:31:57,110 --> 00:31:54,960
doesn't need a pump to move it's really

812
00:31:58,470 --> 00:31:57,120
fascinating to watch this fluid just

813
00:32:00,310 --> 00:31:58,480
move right in the direction that you

814
00:32:02,470 --> 00:32:00,320
want it to go so all kinds of different

815
00:32:05,110 --> 00:32:02,480
experiments and and really fun to be a

816
00:32:08,149 --> 00:32:05,120
part of of all of them really and i

817
00:32:10,470 --> 00:32:08,159
should say leland too that lil and i

818
00:32:12,310 --> 00:32:10,480
um we know some stuff about being in

819
00:32:14,950 --> 00:32:12,320
space but we don't know all that needs

820
00:32:16,950 --> 00:32:14,960
to know to execute and and tend to these

821
00:32:19,269 --> 00:32:16,960
experiments so the real subject matter

822
00:32:20,950 --> 00:32:19,279
experts the scientists that designed it

823
00:32:23,830 --> 00:32:20,960
and know the ins and outs of that

824
00:32:25,750 --> 00:32:23,840
equipment are on the ground tied into us

825
00:32:26,950 --> 00:32:25,760
with a video camera and the microphone

826
00:32:29,110 --> 00:32:26,960
usually too

827
00:32:30,789 --> 00:32:29,120
so they can adjust hey chris

828
00:32:33,909 --> 00:32:30,799
turn the knobs this way let's get some

829
00:32:36,230 --> 00:32:33,919
different fluid flow and and and kind of

830
00:32:38,070 --> 00:32:36,240
tweak the experiment that way

831
00:32:39,990 --> 00:32:38,080
and it's really really nice to be tied

832
00:32:42,149 --> 00:32:40,000
in with the scientists right there in

833
00:32:43,909 --> 00:32:42,159
the hip pocket and it really is a nice

834
00:32:51,269 --> 00:32:43,919
fantastic

835
00:32:56,470 --> 00:32:53,830
okay uh let's go to back to twitter we

836
00:32:58,389 --> 00:32:56,480
have underscore cyber ass

837
00:33:00,310 --> 00:32:58,399
how does your feeling of up and down

838
00:33:03,430 --> 00:33:00,320
change of space uh does it change over

839
00:33:07,269 --> 00:33:05,190
when i when i first got the space i was

840
00:33:09,430 --> 00:33:07,279
sitting in the shuttle and i undid my

841
00:33:11,110 --> 00:33:09,440
seatbelt and i pushed myself forward a

842
00:33:13,430 --> 00:33:11,120
little bit and i started kind of

843
00:33:15,669 --> 00:33:13,440
rotating and when you're training on the

844
00:33:17,269 --> 00:33:15,679
ground you know you know what's you know

845
00:33:18,789 --> 00:33:17,279
what down and up are because gravity's

846
00:33:20,870 --> 00:33:18,799
holding you down but when you get the

847
00:33:23,830 --> 00:33:20,880
space there is no up or down and so

848
00:33:26,149 --> 00:33:23,840
after about two days i remember floating

849
00:33:27,590 --> 00:33:26,159
from the space station coming over to

850
00:33:29,669 --> 00:33:27,600
the going through the hatch going

851
00:33:32,549 --> 00:33:29,679
through to the space shuttle

852
00:33:34,149 --> 00:33:32,559
and you have to do this 180 degree turn

853
00:33:36,149 --> 00:33:34,159
for you to be right side up of what you

854
00:33:37,990 --> 00:33:36,159
know is right side up and so when i got

855
00:33:40,710 --> 00:33:38,000
to that point where i could just go down

856
00:33:42,470 --> 00:33:40,720
not do the rotation and continue to keep

857
00:33:44,230 --> 00:33:42,480
working i knew that i had you know

858
00:33:46,789 --> 00:33:44,240
adjusted to not having to know what

859
00:33:49,110 --> 00:33:46,799
right up or down are and that was the

860
00:33:50,389 --> 00:33:49,120
moment when peggy whitson she was the

861
00:33:51,669 --> 00:33:50,399
first female commander of the space

862
00:33:53,830 --> 00:33:51,679
station

863
00:33:55,430 --> 00:33:53,840
she had printed out this

864
00:33:57,430 --> 00:33:55,440
happy birthday leaving because i was in

865
00:33:59,509 --> 00:33:57,440
space on my birthday and i remember

866
00:34:02,230 --> 00:33:59,519
floating over there and i got through

867
00:34:03,590 --> 00:34:02,240
the hatch and she said get back over

868
00:34:05,029 --> 00:34:03,600
there and come back over here and i was

869
00:34:06,789 --> 00:34:05,039
like peggy i didn't do anything you know

870
00:34:08,629 --> 00:34:06,799
go back and this time when i'm coming

871
00:34:10,550 --> 00:34:08,639
back over i float and rotate and i can

872
00:34:11,829 --> 00:34:10,560
see the happy birthday sign so

873
00:34:13,829 --> 00:34:11,839
you know so up and down doesn't mean

874
00:34:16,310 --> 00:34:13,839
much to you after a few days it's your

875
00:34:18,149 --> 00:34:16,320
body your your vestibular system is kind

876
00:34:19,990 --> 00:34:18,159
of not working so now everything's cute

877
00:34:21,990 --> 00:34:20,000
by your eyes and you just you just get

878
00:34:23,030 --> 00:34:22,000
to work in any orientation you you are

879
00:34:25,270 --> 00:34:23,040
in

880
00:34:27,190 --> 00:34:25,280
good question

881
00:34:29,030 --> 00:34:27,200
we have another school asking a question

882
00:34:31,829 --> 00:34:29,040
it's a yes

883
00:34:33,669 --> 00:34:31,839
espill school they're asking

884
00:34:35,909 --> 00:34:33,679
how do you solve hygienic habits in

885
00:34:41,430 --> 00:34:35,919
space do you sweat a lot do you wash

886
00:34:48,790 --> 00:34:42,149
so

887
00:34:50,950 --> 00:34:48,800
but you know to be honest with you i

888
00:34:54,310 --> 00:34:50,960
felt pretty clean the whole time i was

889
00:34:56,230 --> 00:34:54,320
there you have the oils from your body

890
00:34:58,550 --> 00:34:56,240
and if you did nothing you would feel

891
00:35:00,069 --> 00:34:58,560
very oily and your hair would get be

892
00:35:02,390 --> 00:35:00,079
oily

893
00:35:03,910 --> 00:35:02,400
so what we do is we use baby wipes

894
00:35:06,390 --> 00:35:03,920
but really the technique that i

895
00:35:08,470 --> 00:35:06,400
preferred was to take a bag of water and

896
00:35:11,109 --> 00:35:08,480
squirt a blob of it on my chest and my

897
00:35:13,750 --> 00:35:11,119
arms and on my on my head and uh and

898
00:35:15,510 --> 00:35:13,760
then had a bar of soap and just kind of

899
00:35:17,109 --> 00:35:15,520
move the soap around move the bar soap

900
00:35:19,030 --> 00:35:17,119
through the water and then wipe it off

901
00:35:20,069 --> 00:35:19,040
with a washcloth and i and i felt

902
00:35:22,150 --> 00:35:20,079
and span

903
00:35:24,710 --> 00:35:22,160
clean and uh

904
00:35:28,069 --> 00:35:24,720
and then with your toothpaste we don't

905
00:35:30,630 --> 00:35:28,079
have a sink to spit it in and and uh so

906
00:35:33,030 --> 00:35:30,640
you just brush your teeth and you you

907
00:35:35,109 --> 00:35:33,040
swallow it down the hatch it goes

908
00:35:36,630 --> 00:35:35,119
so it takes some getting used to or the

909
00:35:38,870 --> 00:35:36,640
teeth brushing yeah see we didn't do we

910
00:35:40,710 --> 00:35:38,880
just spit it in trouble

911
00:35:42,310 --> 00:35:40,720
but see we had more things i mean we

912
00:35:44,310 --> 00:35:42,320
have change of clothes every day every

913
00:35:45,589 --> 00:35:44,320
day you guys did not so when we were in

914
00:35:47,589 --> 00:35:45,599
space we would change our clothes we

915
00:35:49,109 --> 00:35:47,599
would wash up but then we docked to the

916
00:35:51,670 --> 00:35:49,119
space station we came over through the

917
00:36:10,069 --> 00:35:51,680
fgb we started smelling you see all

918
00:36:13,030 --> 00:36:11,270
we have a lot of questions coming in

919
00:36:14,069 --> 00:36:13,040
guys from various schools across the

920
00:36:16,230 --> 00:36:14,079
country

921
00:36:18,950 --> 00:36:16,240
uh mrs bird's class in texas comes from

922
00:36:21,670 --> 00:36:18,960
at uh magnet

923
00:36:23,750 --> 00:36:21,680
texas wants to know how fast a spaceship

924
00:36:26,470 --> 00:36:23,760
travels

925
00:36:29,910 --> 00:36:26,480
we're going five miles a second

926
00:36:31,910 --> 00:36:29,920
which is really moving out about 17 500

927
00:36:34,790 --> 00:36:31,920
miles an hour that sign's still up there

928
00:36:37,910 --> 00:36:34,800
it is still there right on the hatch

929
00:36:39,990 --> 00:36:37,920
17 500 miles per hour going around the

930
00:36:42,630 --> 00:36:40,000
planet every 90 minutes sunrise and

931
00:36:44,470 --> 00:36:42,640
sunset every 45 minutes a spectacular

932
00:36:46,150 --> 00:36:44,480
sight imagine if on earth you could be

933
00:36:48,069 --> 00:36:46,160
eating your cereal in the morning and go

934
00:36:49,750 --> 00:36:48,079
oh i got one second to be in class and

935
00:36:53,990 --> 00:36:49,760
you go from your house to your classroom

936
00:36:55,589 --> 00:36:54,000
in one second five miles down the road

937
00:36:57,750 --> 00:36:55,599
you can run that fast game yeah i used

938
00:36:58,630 --> 00:36:57,760
to i'm i'm too old now okay all right

939
00:37:00,150 --> 00:36:58,640
all right

940
00:37:02,390 --> 00:37:00,160
down to about four miles

941
00:37:04,069 --> 00:37:02,400
four miles a second

942
00:37:07,990 --> 00:37:04,079
how about we take uh another question

943
00:37:14,150 --> 00:37:11,190
um hi my name is macy um do you have any

944
00:37:16,870 --> 00:37:14,160
advice for us as we are writing

945
00:37:21,030 --> 00:37:16,880
proposals for our school experiment slot

946
00:37:22,390 --> 00:37:21,040
on the iss in april of 2014

947
00:37:24,069 --> 00:37:22,400
hmm

948
00:37:28,069 --> 00:37:24,079
i don't know if i'm going to be judging

949
00:37:32,470 --> 00:37:30,390
but i think the main thing is to uh you

950
00:37:33,430 --> 00:37:32,480
know something that that is meaningful

951
00:37:35,190 --> 00:37:33,440
to you

952
00:37:37,589 --> 00:37:35,200
and be creative and innovative and work

953
00:37:39,030 --> 00:37:37,599
as a team with with your classmates and

954
00:37:43,349 --> 00:37:39,040
come up with something really really

955
00:37:46,310 --> 00:37:44,710
let me hear all you guys scream out

956
00:37:52,069 --> 00:37:46,320
there you guys are kind of dead let me

957
00:37:52,079 --> 00:37:55,430
a little bit better

958
00:37:59,030 --> 00:37:57,270
hey leland i i have a question how's

959
00:38:01,270 --> 00:37:59,040
that going to work if a group of

960
00:38:03,589 --> 00:38:01,280
students is in in sixth grade right now

961
00:38:04,550 --> 00:38:03,599
and then they might not all be the same

962
00:38:06,470 --> 00:38:04,560
team

963
00:38:07,829 --> 00:38:06,480
when it's next year they're in seventh

964
00:38:09,589 --> 00:38:07,839
grade how does it how does it work when

965
00:38:11,109 --> 00:38:09,599
the pr when it spans through or is it

966
00:38:12,790 --> 00:38:11,119
ending before the school year is over

967
00:38:14,870 --> 00:38:12,800
you mean for the the challenge yeah the

968
00:38:16,470 --> 00:38:14,880
challenge the challenge um all the

969
00:38:18,710 --> 00:38:16,480
students that are signed up to it will

970
00:38:21,270 --> 00:38:18,720
have their names flying space the high

971
00:38:23,109 --> 00:38:21,280
school students that are a team

972
00:38:25,829 --> 00:38:23,119
they will you know they could be 9th

973
00:38:26,870 --> 00:38:25,839
graders 12th graders

974
00:38:28,870 --> 00:38:26,880
like a

975
00:38:30,550 --> 00:38:28,880
group that means after school right so

976
00:38:32,710 --> 00:38:30,560
they'll build their radiation shield and

977
00:38:33,430 --> 00:38:32,720
then they will come down to install it

978
00:38:35,270 --> 00:38:33,440
and

979
00:38:36,790 --> 00:38:35,280
okay as i was picturing like a classroom

980
00:38:38,710 --> 00:38:36,800
setting like this but it's not the case

981
00:38:42,630 --> 00:38:38,720
it's a group yeah right okay after

982
00:38:47,349 --> 00:38:44,390
let's uh let's go back to twitter a

983
00:38:48,630 --> 00:38:47,359
connor giant underscore giant ass when

984
00:38:51,109 --> 00:38:48,640
you get back to earth after being in

985
00:38:54,550 --> 00:38:51,119
space is it difficult to regain normal

986
00:38:56,950 --> 00:38:54,560
movement uh when gravity present

987
00:38:58,950 --> 00:38:56,960
well it just happened to me so i'll take

988
00:39:01,750 --> 00:38:58,960
that question the um

989
00:39:03,750 --> 00:39:01,760
the moving around part is

990
00:39:06,470 --> 00:39:03,760
happens right away there's no hesitation

991
00:39:09,109 --> 00:39:06,480
with moving around it's the balance that

992
00:39:10,630 --> 00:39:09,119
that really is is a challenge and

993
00:39:12,550 --> 00:39:10,640
we have really

994
00:39:15,270 --> 00:39:12,560
quality exercise equipment up there

995
00:39:17,430 --> 00:39:15,280
these days a nice weight machine and a

996
00:39:19,030 --> 00:39:17,440
treadmill on a bicycle and those do a

997
00:39:20,870 --> 00:39:19,040
fantastic job of keeping our muscles

998
00:39:23,430 --> 00:39:20,880
strong and our bones healthy

999
00:39:24,870 --> 00:39:23,440
but it's the whole equilibrium balance

1000
00:39:27,030 --> 00:39:24,880
thing that's out of whack and you have

1001
00:39:28,790 --> 00:39:27,040
to tie that back in with all your

1002
00:39:31,270 --> 00:39:28,800
muscles again and that takes a little a

1003
00:39:33,510 --> 00:39:31,280
little practice about uh you know a

1004
00:39:35,990 --> 00:39:33,520
couple weeks worth of time to really be

1005
00:39:38,390 --> 00:39:36,000
fully functional again i found a little

1006
00:39:40,310 --> 00:39:38,400
trick is when you get back if you look

1007
00:39:42,150 --> 00:39:40,320
at the horizon look at the ocean when

1008
00:39:44,150 --> 00:39:42,160
you're in florida it helps you re

1009
00:39:46,230 --> 00:39:44,160
recalibrate your gyros because my first

1010
00:39:47,910 --> 00:39:46,240
flight they had me in crew quarters and

1011
00:39:50,630 --> 00:39:47,920
i didn't get out and really see anything

1012
00:39:52,230 --> 00:39:50,640
yeah and i had a tougher time adjusting

1013
00:39:54,630 --> 00:39:52,240
but the second flight i came back with

1014
00:39:56,150 --> 00:39:54,640
my family down to the condos

1015
00:39:58,230 --> 00:39:56,160
and i just went out on the beach and

1016
00:40:00,630 --> 00:39:58,240
looked at the horizon and it seemed like

1017
00:40:01,430 --> 00:40:00,640
things got a little more adjusted

1018
00:40:03,430 --> 00:40:01,440
yeah

1019
00:40:05,270 --> 00:40:03,440
so your next flight you know yep i have

1020
00:40:06,470 --> 00:40:05,280
to be from florida then all right so

1021
00:40:12,069 --> 00:40:06,480
let's

1022
00:40:16,069 --> 00:40:13,750
okay we have time for a few more

1023
00:40:19,750 --> 00:40:16,079
questions uh this one's from saint joan

1024
00:40:21,589 --> 00:40:19,760
of arc school uh mrs uh hebert's class

1025
00:40:23,430 --> 00:40:21,599
uh what do you eat while you're in space

1026
00:40:25,030 --> 00:40:23,440
what kinds of food do you guys uh have

1027
00:40:26,069 --> 00:40:25,040
available for you

1028
00:40:28,310 --> 00:40:26,079
um

1029
00:40:30,390 --> 00:40:28,320
chocolate pudding cake yeah that is that

1030
00:40:32,069 --> 00:40:30,400
is a good all-time favorite really

1031
00:40:34,230 --> 00:40:32,079
that's good stuff but you guys get the

1032
00:40:36,710 --> 00:40:34,240
really good stuff like the the beef the

1033
00:40:38,470 --> 00:40:36,720
what is it the basmati rice and beef see

1034
00:40:39,829 --> 00:40:38,480
we don't yeah cello crews didn't get all

1035
00:40:42,870 --> 00:40:39,839
the good stuff well i don't know about

1036
00:40:44,870 --> 00:40:42,880
that the true thing is if your crewmate

1037
00:40:46,310 --> 00:40:44,880
is from italy that's a good thing that's

1038
00:40:48,550 --> 00:40:46,320
what i learned is that there's the

1039
00:40:51,349 --> 00:40:48,560
moneymaker right there and we had

1040
00:40:52,390 --> 00:40:51,359
we had some fantastic italian pasta and

1041
00:40:53,829 --> 00:40:52,400
um

1042
00:40:55,589 --> 00:40:53,839
uh i'm drawing a blank what's the really

1043
00:40:58,309 --> 00:40:55,599
yummy dessert that that they have

1044
00:41:01,990 --> 00:41:00,390
and and that sort of thing was was great

1045
00:41:03,750 --> 00:41:02,000
but my personal favorite was seafood

1046
00:41:05,349 --> 00:41:03,760
gumbo and that was made right there at

1047
00:41:07,030 --> 00:41:05,359
nasa some

1048
00:41:10,630 --> 00:41:07,040
really really good food there's never a

1049
00:41:12,630 --> 00:41:10,640
lack of uh of um of to select from and

1050
00:41:14,069 --> 00:41:12,640
and to eat from did you lose your taste

1051
00:41:15,990 --> 00:41:14,079
your sense of taste no i didn't i don't

1052
00:41:18,069 --> 00:41:16,000
either yeah interesting and everything i

1053
00:41:19,430 --> 00:41:18,079
was eating everything and the stuff that

1054
00:41:21,510 --> 00:41:19,440
i felt like i would have grabbed on

1055
00:41:28,069 --> 00:41:21,520
earth is the same stuff i tended to grab

1056
00:41:36,309 --> 00:41:29,670
they got in the back in the blue shirt

1057
00:41:40,390 --> 00:41:38,150
uh we have a question on from facebook

1058
00:41:42,870 --> 00:41:40,400
it's um

1059
00:41:45,349 --> 00:41:42,880
junior astronaut mackenzie

1060
00:41:47,829 --> 00:41:45,359
and says hello chris i'm an aspiring

1061
00:41:49,430 --> 00:41:47,839
astronaut high school i was wondering if

1062
00:41:51,109 --> 00:41:49,440
you have any tips on how to become an

1063
00:41:52,710 --> 00:41:51,119
astronaut i'm sure leland can answer

1064
00:41:55,349 --> 00:41:52,720
this one as well

1065
00:41:57,589 --> 00:41:55,359
well um

1066
00:42:00,470 --> 00:41:57,599
leland and i have a friend named dwayne

1067
00:42:02,550 --> 00:42:00,480
ross who's in charge of of astronaut

1068
00:42:04,470 --> 00:42:02,560
selection and

1069
00:42:07,430 --> 00:42:04,480
i remember when i was going through

1070
00:42:10,790 --> 00:42:07,440
through the process and everybody that i

1071
00:42:13,109 --> 00:42:10,800
met in my interview weeks were so nice

1072
00:42:14,550 --> 00:42:13,119
and so smart and so squared away that i

1073
00:42:16,309 --> 00:42:14,560
thought i don't have

1074
00:42:18,069 --> 00:42:16,319
really a chance i don't know how i'm

1075
00:42:20,470 --> 00:42:18,079
gonna stack up to these people and then

1076
00:42:22,550 --> 00:42:20,480
when i did get picked my wife and i were

1077
00:42:23,829 --> 00:42:22,560
talking to dwayne and said you know

1078
00:42:26,790 --> 00:42:23,839
wayne how

1079
00:42:29,030 --> 00:42:26,800
do you pick from all these really well

1080
00:42:31,270 --> 00:42:29,040
qualified people and his answer has

1081
00:42:33,910 --> 00:42:31,280
stuck with me and that was we we want to

1082
00:42:35,829 --> 00:42:33,920
pick nice people exactly and that makes

1083
00:42:37,829 --> 00:42:35,839
real sense to me now that i've spent six

1084
00:42:40,230 --> 00:42:37,839
months on the space station because if

1085
00:42:42,069 --> 00:42:40,240
you go camping you want to go you want

1086
00:42:43,750 --> 00:42:42,079
to share a tent with somebody that you

1087
00:42:45,990 --> 00:42:43,760
enjoy being out in the woods with and

1088
00:42:47,910 --> 00:42:46,000
camping with and and that's exactly how

1089
00:42:50,150 --> 00:42:47,920
it is on the in a space vehicle you want

1090
00:42:52,710 --> 00:42:50,160
nice people that you enjoy sharing that

1091
00:42:54,630 --> 00:42:52,720
awesome experience with and then along

1092
00:42:56,870 --> 00:42:54,640
the way you have to do your education

1093
00:42:59,510 --> 00:42:56,880
and study hard and and put your nose to

1094
00:43:02,069 --> 00:42:59,520
the grindstone um academically and take

1095
00:43:03,510 --> 00:43:02,079
event which opens up doors for you later

1096
00:43:06,069 --> 00:43:03,520
in life and take advantage of those

1097
00:43:08,630 --> 00:43:06,079
opportunities as they they arise but

1098
00:43:10,870 --> 00:43:08,640
never forget the fact that um we want

1099
00:43:12,710 --> 00:43:10,880
nice people here and that is not only

1100
00:43:14,870 --> 00:43:12,720
true at nasa it will serve you well all

1101
00:43:16,710 --> 00:43:14,880
through life i think that's a perfect

1102
00:43:18,470 --> 00:43:16,720
perfect question

1103
00:43:21,670 --> 00:43:18,480
that's great advice

1104
00:43:23,589 --> 00:43:21,680
uh we have miss sees class one

1105
00:43:28,230 --> 00:43:23,599
who asks our first grade class wants to

1106
00:43:32,790 --> 00:43:30,190
well i was on two shuttle missions

1107
00:43:34,550 --> 00:43:32,800
sts-122 and 129

1108
00:43:37,030 --> 00:43:34,560
and it's a really bad thing if you land

1109
00:43:39,030 --> 00:43:37,040
in the water so we did not land in water

1110
00:43:41,349 --> 00:43:39,040
steve frick and charlie hobart

1111
00:43:43,270 --> 00:43:41,359
did their job very well and landed in

1112
00:43:44,630 --> 00:43:43,280
kennedy space center right down the

1113
00:43:46,470 --> 00:43:44,640
runway so

1114
00:43:48,150 --> 00:43:46,480
we have never landed in water the apollo

1115
00:43:50,470 --> 00:43:48,160
program landed obviously in the water

1116
00:43:53,190 --> 00:43:50,480
but i think you want to talk about your

1117
00:43:55,030 --> 00:43:53,200
your landings yeah we la same thing one

1118
00:43:56,790 --> 00:43:55,040
one shuttle mission landed uh right

1119
00:43:59,270 --> 00:43:56,800
there in kennedy space center and and my

1120
00:44:01,030 --> 00:43:59,280
soyuz landed uh in

1121
00:44:02,470 --> 00:44:01,040
the desert basically but i it made me

1122
00:44:04,630 --> 00:44:02,480
think about the training that we do in

1123
00:44:06,630 --> 00:44:04,640
the in the neutral buoyancy laboratory

1124
00:44:09,750 --> 00:44:06,640
in case we did land in the water we're

1125
00:44:11,349 --> 00:44:09,760
prepared for that we do we practice how

1126
00:44:13,589 --> 00:44:11,359
it would be to get away from your

1127
00:44:16,309 --> 00:44:13,599
parachute as it comes down on you in the

1128
00:44:18,550 --> 00:44:16,319
water and to make yourself safe with a

1129
00:44:20,630 --> 00:44:18,560
life jacket but that's really just

1130
00:44:22,710 --> 00:44:20,640
continuously planning what if what if

1131
00:44:25,190 --> 00:44:22,720
kind of things and it certainly hasn't

1132
00:44:27,430 --> 00:44:25,200
happened before and i think for orion

1133
00:44:29,030 --> 00:44:27,440
we're looking at landing in the water

1134
00:44:31,430 --> 00:44:29,040
again like we did with the apollo

1135
00:44:33,270 --> 00:44:31,440
program so we'll be getting back to that

1136
00:44:34,470 --> 00:44:33,280
you know parachutes coming down and

1137
00:44:36,790 --> 00:44:34,480
landing i don't think we have to use the

1138
00:44:38,390 --> 00:44:36,800
retro rockets that you do when you land

1139
00:44:39,990 --> 00:44:38,400
in kazakhstan to kind of limit the

1140
00:44:40,710 --> 00:44:40,000
number of g's

1141
00:44:41,990 --> 00:44:40,720
but

1142
00:44:46,630 --> 00:44:42,000
we'll be landing back in the water with

1143
00:44:51,589 --> 00:44:48,550
great let's go back to northland prep

1144
00:44:53,510 --> 00:44:51,599
for a question

1145
00:44:56,150 --> 00:44:53,520
hi i'm rory what is it like coming back

1146
00:44:56,950 --> 00:44:56,160
down from space

1147
00:44:59,589 --> 00:44:56,960
yeah

1148
00:45:01,670 --> 00:44:59,599
how about your ride down it's a lot lot

1149
00:45:03,430 --> 00:45:01,680
tougher than rifling on the shuttle

1150
00:45:05,030 --> 00:45:03,440
there's a lot there's a lot going on

1151
00:45:06,550 --> 00:45:05,040
when you're coming back from a space

1152
00:45:09,030 --> 00:45:06,560
mission so

1153
00:45:10,630 --> 00:45:09,040
um let's start with how do you get back

1154
00:45:13,349 --> 00:45:10,640
when you're orbiting the earth you're

1155
00:45:14,790 --> 00:45:13,359
going um you're going really fast but

1156
00:45:16,710 --> 00:45:14,800
you're still falling

1157
00:45:18,870 --> 00:45:16,720
towards the earth you're just going so

1158
00:45:21,349 --> 00:45:18,880
fast forward that as you fall the earth

1159
00:45:22,950 --> 00:45:21,359
curves away underneath you so

1160
00:45:24,870 --> 00:45:22,960
how do we slow that when we turn the

1161
00:45:27,990 --> 00:45:24,880
spaceship around and fire the engine to

1162
00:45:30,870 --> 00:45:28,000
slow us down we slow down to a point so

1163
00:45:33,349 --> 00:45:30,880
as we fall towards earth now we actually

1164
00:45:35,109 --> 00:45:33,359
do start to hit that atmosphere and that

1165
00:45:37,030 --> 00:45:35,119
builds up the

1166
00:45:39,349 --> 00:45:37,040
the heat and the resistance as we come

1167
00:45:43,670 --> 00:45:39,359
into the atmosphere and that's where the

1168
00:45:45,430 --> 00:45:43,680
heat shield comes to play and in a soyuz

1169
00:45:47,430 --> 00:45:45,440
my shoulder was right next to a window

1170
00:45:49,750 --> 00:45:47,440
so i could see all that smoke and fire

1171
00:45:51,589 --> 00:45:49,760
and plasma going by

1172
00:45:53,990 --> 00:45:51,599
and different

1173
00:45:56,069 --> 00:45:54,000
explosions as the bolts that hold

1174
00:45:58,230 --> 00:45:56,079
different pieces and parts to the

1175
00:46:00,230 --> 00:45:58,240
spacecraft that you no longer need at

1176
00:46:02,150 --> 00:46:00,240
different stages they start separating

1177
00:46:04,150 --> 00:46:02,160
you can hear those and you can hear them

1178
00:46:05,510 --> 00:46:04,160
big and loud and then there's a bang it

1179
00:46:06,630 --> 00:46:05,520
shakes the whole vehicle because it's

1180
00:46:09,349 --> 00:46:06,640
really small

1181
00:46:11,349 --> 00:46:09,359
and then the parachute opens and then uh

1182
00:46:13,510 --> 00:46:11,359
and then with our shuttle missions it

1183
00:46:15,109 --> 00:46:13,520
depends where you sit right on how much

1184
00:46:17,109 --> 00:46:15,119
your perspective

1185
00:46:18,550 --> 00:46:17,119
uh downstairs for countries so i was on

1186
00:46:21,670 --> 00:46:18,560
the flight deck so i saw similar things

1187
00:46:23,510 --> 00:46:21,680
that you saw on the soyuz i was ms-1 so

1188
00:46:25,349 --> 00:46:23,520
i was going i was sitting in the back to

1189
00:46:27,750 --> 00:46:25,359
the right i can look on the overhead

1190
00:46:29,670 --> 00:46:27,760
window and see this 3000 degree plasma

1191
00:46:31,109 --> 00:46:29,680
coming over the top of the window i had

1192
00:46:33,109 --> 00:46:31,119
to put video camera up looking at that

1193
00:46:35,030 --> 00:46:33,119
and then as you come in your you know

1194
00:46:37,270 --> 00:46:35,040
the same thing with the soyuz you have

1195
00:46:39,750 --> 00:46:37,280
these black tiles on the bottom that are

1196
00:46:42,309 --> 00:46:39,760
going to be able to absorb that or

1197
00:46:43,750 --> 00:46:42,319
deflect that 3000 degrees plasma and

1198
00:46:45,589 --> 00:46:43,760
then you come in the atmosphere you just

1199
00:46:47,910 --> 00:46:45,599
mass turns and you land on

1200
00:46:51,109 --> 00:46:47,920
the kennedy space center but the same

1201
00:46:53,030 --> 00:46:51,119
same temperatures it's really hot but uh

1202
00:46:55,190 --> 00:46:53,040
the vehicles are built just right to get

1203
00:46:56,950 --> 00:46:55,200
us back home safely yeah and those tiles

1204
00:46:59,510 --> 00:46:56,960
are interesting i remember one one visit

1205
00:47:01,510 --> 00:46:59,520
to kennedy space center the engineer had

1206
00:47:02,950 --> 00:47:01,520
us put our hands on the back side of one

1207
00:47:05,109 --> 00:47:02,960
and they put a torch

1208
00:47:06,630 --> 00:47:05,119
on the other side and you can't feel it

1209
00:47:08,309 --> 00:47:06,640
at all it's pretty cool i guess we can't

1210
00:47:12,230 --> 00:47:08,319
do that in the classroom but yeah the

1211
00:47:15,270 --> 00:47:13,829
we have time to take a couple more from

1212
00:47:17,589 --> 00:47:15,280
social

1213
00:47:19,030 --> 00:47:17,599
and maybe one more from northland prep

1214
00:47:21,430 --> 00:47:19,040
this is from

1215
00:47:23,270 --> 00:47:21,440
uh tyler kirschner who asks is there any

1216
00:47:24,550 --> 00:47:23,280
pressure in space and if so

1217
00:47:26,550 --> 00:47:24,560
how do you deal with that and i think

1218
00:47:30,390 --> 00:47:26,560
means pressure or like a pressurized

1219
00:47:31,750 --> 00:47:30,400
volume not pressure or stress pressure

1220
00:47:36,710 --> 00:47:31,760
there's both

1221
00:47:39,190 --> 00:47:36,720
yeah we have uh in our pressurized

1222
00:47:40,870 --> 00:47:39,200
modules are 14.7 psi same thing as

1223
00:47:43,430 --> 00:47:40,880
what's down here on the ground

1224
00:47:45,349 --> 00:47:43,440
and uh you know we breathe oxygen and

1225
00:47:46,870 --> 00:47:45,359
everything in there uh when you what's

1226
00:47:48,109 --> 00:47:46,880
what's the pressure in your eva suit

1227
00:47:50,790 --> 00:47:48,119
when you're

1228
00:47:52,550 --> 00:47:50,800
4.4.3 which equates to an altitude i

1229
00:47:53,990 --> 00:47:52,560
think about like mount everest kind of

1230
00:47:56,870 --> 00:47:54,000
thing and just like a mount everest

1231
00:47:58,870 --> 00:47:56,880
climber usually wears oxygen masks

1232
00:48:02,950 --> 00:47:58,880
that's how come we can work there we

1233
00:48:06,150 --> 00:48:02,960
have 100 oxygen in the spacesuit right

1234
00:48:12,790 --> 00:48:09,589
okay thank you and i have one here from

1235
00:48:14,630 --> 00:48:12,800
uh sophia pd13 who asks what kind of

1236
00:48:17,510 --> 00:48:14,640
stuff do you guys have to study like is

1237
00:48:20,309 --> 00:48:17,520
it physics mechanics mathematics what's

1238
00:48:22,230 --> 00:48:20,319
the key to success in your jobs

1239
00:48:23,990 --> 00:48:22,240
i think the the biggest thing is for you

1240
00:48:26,549 --> 00:48:24,000
to study something that you love that

1241
00:48:28,390 --> 00:48:26,559
you like to do i was a chemistry major

1242
00:48:30,390 --> 00:48:28,400
undergraduate got a master's degree in

1243
00:48:31,910 --> 00:48:30,400
materials science engineering and worked

1244
00:48:34,230 --> 00:48:31,920
in a phd in mechanical engineering but i

1245
00:48:36,390 --> 00:48:34,240
didn't finish it then i i did use none

1246
00:48:38,790 --> 00:48:36,400
of that and did fiber optic centers for

1247
00:48:40,549 --> 00:48:38,800
my research and uh so i think

1248
00:48:42,950 --> 00:48:40,559
when you when you come to nasa as an

1249
00:48:44,470 --> 00:48:42,960
astronaut they look for people that can

1250
00:48:46,390 --> 00:48:44,480
work with their hands work with other

1251
00:48:47,829 --> 00:48:46,400
people and just do different things if

1252
00:48:50,790 --> 00:48:47,839
the toilet breaks in space who has to

1253
00:48:53,270 --> 00:48:50,800
fix it we do we do right so doing things

1254
00:48:54,630 --> 00:48:53,280
with your hands doing the space walks

1255
00:48:56,390 --> 00:48:54,640
were there times when you went out on

1256
00:48:57,990 --> 00:48:56,400
the space walk that you

1257
00:49:00,309 --> 00:48:58,000
you weren't something wasn't planned

1258
00:49:02,150 --> 00:49:00,319
like the the leak in the helmet yeah

1259
00:49:03,430 --> 00:49:02,160
figure that out use all the information

1260
00:49:05,670 --> 00:49:03,440
that you have available and make good

1261
00:49:07,829 --> 00:49:05,680
decisions right so being curious i think

1262
00:49:09,510 --> 00:49:07,839
is a big part but any technical

1263
00:49:12,230 --> 00:49:09,520
discipline science mathematics

1264
00:49:14,870 --> 00:49:12,240
engineering um are things that we look

1265
00:49:17,109 --> 00:49:14,880
for as astronaut candidates so that you

1266
00:49:21,589 --> 00:49:17,119
can solve these problems build these

1267
00:49:26,630 --> 00:49:23,990
great i'm going to do one more from so

1268
00:49:29,750 --> 00:49:26,640
then a final one from northland prep

1269
00:49:31,670 --> 00:49:29,760
this is from andy andrew koopish

1270
00:49:33,190 --> 00:49:31,680
and his third grade students and this is

1271
00:49:34,470 --> 00:49:33,200
a kind of philosophical question i'm

1272
00:49:36,309 --> 00:49:34,480
sure you guys get asked quite a bit but

1273
00:49:40,390 --> 00:49:36,319
what do you think the chances are of

1274
00:49:44,470 --> 00:49:42,390
well um

1275
00:49:47,030 --> 00:49:44,480
i think we

1276
00:49:49,109 --> 00:49:47,040
using the technology we have now we're

1277
00:49:52,950 --> 00:49:49,119
we've got a little evidence of

1278
00:49:54,630 --> 00:49:52,960
early early basic life forms on mars but

1279
00:49:56,630 --> 00:49:54,640
uh i think people when they ask that

1280
00:49:59,109 --> 00:49:56,640
question they're they're thinking about

1281
00:50:00,549 --> 00:49:59,119
like the et guy or some other person

1282
00:50:01,750 --> 00:50:00,559
that looks like us

1283
00:50:04,470 --> 00:50:01,760
and uh

1284
00:50:07,190 --> 00:50:04,480
it's a gigantic gigantic

1285
00:50:10,069 --> 00:50:07,200
universe out there and and space is so

1286
00:50:12,790 --> 00:50:10,079
vast and we our solar system is just a

1287
00:50:13,589 --> 00:50:12,800
one tiny speck in all of that

1288
00:50:20,150 --> 00:50:13,599
so

1289
00:50:21,670 --> 00:50:20,160
far corner that we may never ever get to

1290
00:50:22,870 --> 00:50:21,680
that they're wondering the same question

1291
00:50:24,150 --> 00:50:22,880
about us

1292
00:50:25,109 --> 00:50:24,160
um

1293
00:50:27,750 --> 00:50:25,119
but

1294
00:50:29,829 --> 00:50:27,760
you know my personal opinion is uh we're

1295
00:50:35,829 --> 00:50:29,839
not going to see that anytime soon at

1296
00:50:42,150 --> 00:50:37,990
okay why don't we go back to uh

1297
00:50:47,990 --> 00:50:46,230
hi my name is rachel i go by natalie and

1298
00:50:50,150 --> 00:50:48,000
my question was have have you ever

1299
00:50:52,870 --> 00:50:50,160
conducted a student experiment like the

1300
00:50:55,190 --> 00:50:52,880
iss project that we're doing

1301
00:50:57,270 --> 00:50:55,200
experiment like the iss project

1302
00:50:58,790 --> 00:50:57,280
so a student experiment in space in

1303
00:51:00,150 --> 00:50:58,800
space

1304
00:51:01,430 --> 00:51:00,160
natalie what what is that experiment

1305
00:51:02,630 --> 00:51:01,440
that you're doing you say the iss

1306
00:51:04,870 --> 00:51:02,640
project

1307
00:51:07,349 --> 00:51:04,880
yeah the space experiment that we're

1308
00:51:09,829 --> 00:51:07,359
doing with the iss

1309
00:51:11,349 --> 00:51:09,839
so the students are writing proposals

1310
00:51:12,790 --> 00:51:11,359
right now to

1311
00:51:15,109 --> 00:51:12,800
um

1312
00:51:16,710 --> 00:51:15,119
one will be chosen to uh be sent to the

1313
00:51:18,390 --> 00:51:16,720
space station in april to the student

1314
00:51:19,990 --> 00:51:18,400
space flight experiment program and

1315
00:51:22,230 --> 00:51:20,000
she's wondering have you ever done that

1316
00:51:23,589 --> 00:51:22,240
before or worked on a student experiment

1317
00:51:26,630 --> 00:51:23,599
in space

1318
00:51:28,710 --> 00:51:26,640
i have not done one of those

1319
00:51:30,950 --> 00:51:28,720
experiments as a student writing a

1320
00:51:32,870 --> 00:51:30,960
proposal i don't think when i was your

1321
00:51:34,549 --> 00:51:32,880
age that we had those things going on at

1322
00:51:37,750 --> 00:51:34,559
the time the space station wasn't wasn't

1323
00:51:39,750 --> 00:51:37,760
built at the time but um you know we you

1324
00:51:41,030 --> 00:51:39,760
know as a kid i was always building

1325
00:51:42,549 --> 00:51:41,040
things and

1326
00:51:44,390 --> 00:51:42,559
i had a chemistry set i was blowing

1327
00:51:46,630 --> 00:51:44,400
things up and doing things and i never

1328
00:51:49,270 --> 00:51:46,640
really had to to write up an experiment

1329
00:51:50,870 --> 00:51:49,280
for something like that but uh but i

1330
00:51:52,390 --> 00:51:50,880
think you know as i said earlier you

1331
00:51:55,030 --> 00:51:52,400
know just be very

1332
00:51:56,470 --> 00:51:55,040
very clever curious use google find out

1333
00:51:57,829 --> 00:51:56,480
some of the experiments that chris was

1334
00:51:59,829 --> 00:51:57,839
doing in space with the flames and

1335
00:52:01,829 --> 00:51:59,839
different things when i was in space we

1336
00:52:04,150 --> 00:52:01,839
were doing some work with e coli

1337
00:52:06,549 --> 00:52:04,160
bacteria looking at how it was affected

1338
00:52:08,230 --> 00:52:06,559
by the gravitational uh gravity and

1339
00:52:10,470 --> 00:52:08,240
without gravity the control group on the

1340
00:52:12,630 --> 00:52:10,480
ground we had mice in space that we were

1341
00:52:14,630 --> 00:52:12,640
looking at how they adapted to

1342
00:52:17,270 --> 00:52:14,640
microgravity butterflies and just

1343
00:52:18,630 --> 00:52:17,280
different different types of things so

1344
00:52:19,910 --> 00:52:18,640
i think the main thing is for you to be

1345
00:52:21,829 --> 00:52:19,920
curious and to do a little bit of

1346
00:52:24,309 --> 00:52:21,839
research to see what's actually gone on

1347
00:52:27,190 --> 00:52:24,319
in space and then maybe take some of

1348
00:52:29,270 --> 00:52:27,200
that work and put it into your into your

1349
00:52:33,589 --> 00:52:29,280
proposal and hopefully get selected in

1350
00:52:38,150 --> 00:52:35,670
thanks guys uh before we conclude wanted

1351
00:52:39,670 --> 00:52:38,160
to see if you had any final thoughts we

1352
00:52:42,150 --> 00:52:39,680
see uh from social media there's a lot

1353
00:52:43,510 --> 00:52:42,160
of class classrooms watching today

1354
00:52:44,710 --> 00:52:43,520
anything you want to share with them

1355
00:52:46,790 --> 00:52:44,720
some final

1356
00:52:48,790 --> 00:52:46,800
final uh inspirational words on on the

1357
00:52:50,630 --> 00:52:48,800
future of human space flight

1358
00:52:52,549 --> 00:52:50,640
well well first of all i'd just like to

1359
00:52:54,390 --> 00:52:52,559
say thank you guys for participating

1360
00:52:56,549 --> 00:52:54,400
today we really appreciate you and i

1361
00:52:57,829 --> 00:52:56,559
know one of you out there or maybe a few

1362
00:52:59,829 --> 00:52:57,839
of you out there will be that next

1363
00:53:01,589 --> 00:52:59,839
generation of explorer that will be

1364
00:53:03,910 --> 00:53:01,599
flying in space and maybe going to mars

1365
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one day or maybe taking our places as

1366
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astronauts one day and i think we we

1367
00:53:10,150 --> 00:53:07,920
definitely need your your creativity

1368
00:53:11,829 --> 00:53:10,160
your innovation and your passion you

1369
00:53:13,190 --> 00:53:11,839
know chris mentioned us working together

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as a team we have people from all around

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the world working together to help

1372
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advance our civilization it's going to

1373
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take you guys be nice

1374
00:53:23,270 --> 00:53:21,200
nice is very important in space

1375
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work hard be the best that you can be

1376
00:53:27,270 --> 00:53:24,880
listen to your parents eat your green

1377
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beans very important health and space is

1378
00:53:30,950 --> 00:53:28,720
very important right

1379
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but uh but just enjoy enjoy yourselves

1380
00:53:34,630 --> 00:53:32,480
and play don't let people bully you

1381
00:53:36,790 --> 00:53:34,640
don't bully other people and just and

1382
00:53:38,630 --> 00:53:36,800
just have a good time but uh you know we

1383
00:53:40,710 --> 00:53:38,640
need you badly we need to advance our

1384
00:53:42,950 --> 00:53:40,720
civilization through space exploration

1385
00:53:44,950 --> 00:53:42,960
and you guys are our future so

1386
00:53:47,829 --> 00:53:44,960
turn over to chris

1387
00:53:49,589 --> 00:53:47,839
and and just remember uh our ours people

1388
00:53:51,990 --> 00:53:49,599
wonder what the where our space program

1389
00:53:54,710 --> 00:53:52,000
is right now without a space shuttle and

1390
00:53:56,710 --> 00:53:54,720
uh and we have people in space every

1391
00:53:58,870 --> 00:53:56,720
single day doing cool things doing

1392
00:54:00,630 --> 00:53:58,880
science experiments and really pushing

1393
00:54:02,630 --> 00:54:00,640
the frontier of knowledge and when you

1394
00:54:05,190 --> 00:54:02,640
guys come to nasa whether it be as an

1395
00:54:07,910 --> 00:54:05,200
astronaut or as an engineer or a flight

1396
00:54:09,349 --> 00:54:07,920
controller uh we'll continue to push

1397
00:54:10,390 --> 00:54:09,359
those boundaries of knowledge even

1398
00:54:11,910 --> 00:54:10,400
further so

1399
00:54:16,069 --> 00:54:11,920
really really excited to be with you

1400
00:54:20,470 --> 00:54:19,270
all right okay thanks guys

1401
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that concludes stays hangout with

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astronauts chris cassidy and leland

1403
00:54:25,670 --> 00:54:24,400
melvin melvin excuse me if you would

1404
00:54:27,589 --> 00:54:25,680
like more information on the future of

1405
00:54:31,190 --> 00:54:27,599
human space flight you can visit on the

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00:54:32,870 --> 00:54:31,200
web at www.nasa.gov

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00:54:34,150 --> 00:54:32,880
you can also follow us on social media

1408
00:54:36,230 --> 00:54:34,160
on twitter we're on

1409
00:54:37,510 --> 00:54:36,240
nasa we're on facebook plus nasa on

1410
00:54:39,510 --> 00:54:37,520
google plus

1411
00:54:42,150 --> 00:54:39,520
for students visit us on the web as well

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at go.nasa.gov