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houston please call station for a voice

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iss this is cbs at the kennedy space

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we hear you loud and clear welcome

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well thank you very much it's glad to uh

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glad to be here and i guess first of all

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a belated happy thanksgiving to you guys

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i hope you got some time off and uh

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wondering if you had a good meal up

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meal a little bit of turkey and stuffing

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and green beans and all the all the

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that sounds great and mike is a former

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college football i'm just going to keep

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this on the thanksgiving theme for a

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minute i know you're a former college

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football player and i assume you've been

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following your favorite teams i'm just

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wondering if you guys had a chance to

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see any of the alabama auburn game up

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the results of it it sounds like it was

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an incredible ending

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yeah it really was you want to make any

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just wondering if you're okay with ohio

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state at number two or would you rather

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see something else come up for the for

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well i'm a big 10 guy so i'm i'm very

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happy to see ohio state at number two i

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think they think they got a great shot

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at it and i look forward to for them

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playing in the championship game

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hey rick uh russian progress ship just

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showed up i guess and uh i understand

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you all had some gifts on board i know

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you don't know what they are but what

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are you planning to do for the holidays

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we'll have to search that a little bit

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closer now

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for the holidays of course you know

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being away from our family uh the most

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important thing is we'll get to do some

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video conferencing with our families and

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friends and make some phone calls and of

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course then we'll all get together up

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here have a big meal and just enjoy each

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how about new year's eve you guys got

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day in japan as well as in many other

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countries i am planning to have rice

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cuisine so i'm looking forward to having

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that then i'm going to be sharing that

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well koichi let me ask you another

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know you were following comet ison and i

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glory as it went around the sun we were

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all following that down here i know you

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shooting that with a high-res 4k camera

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describe what it looked like and and

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of it on the way out or whatever's left

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tale but it looked really vivid

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such a dynamic event of the universe and

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disappearing uh you know when it when it

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goes around the sun so i just felt that

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how small we are and then it's we were

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so lucky to be able to see that event

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how is uh how's that camera working out

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really beautiful uh aurora pictures so

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getting back up to speed this time

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around you're going to command the next

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increment but uh did was it like coming

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space station i felt as if i came back

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rick how about you what's it like for a

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something i'm but uh no it's great you

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run is great i'm looking forward to

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doing uh working with the scientists on

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the ground getting some interesting

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research done i'm really enjoying uh

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taking pictures out the window i'm

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seeing things on the planet earth that

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so it's it's great living up here and

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i'm glad i have this opportunity

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module you can you know changing your

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orientation looking at things a little

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it's just it's fun it's fun even when

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station's first launch i was wondering

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designing of the iss hardware especially

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space shuttle program if you look back

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how to operate these vehicles we learn

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how to become make them more and more

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efficient and we operate them more and

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ten years and if the engineers say the

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hardware will hold together we got lots

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what about and i know i hate to ask you

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guys politics questions but obviously to

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scarce dollars well how do y'all see the

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value of station and ongoing research

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those while we're up here and as well as

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earth benefit that's coming out of that

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it's it's something that's going to be

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well guys are telling me i'm out of time

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have a have a great time up there look

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road and have a good holiday thanks a

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well thank you yeah thank you very much

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it was great talking to you and same

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well we hear you loud and clear welcome

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thank you so much i would like to start

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out talking about some of the most

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recent research and experiments

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happening on board the iss if you guys

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you're looking at three guinea pigs

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ultrasounds on it and those ultrasounds

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are not only telling us what's happening

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to our spine but we're developing

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techniques that can also be used for

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remote use down on earth so from that

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standpoint the human research that we're

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doing not only is going to help us go

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further out into

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the the universe and the solar system

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but is also helping us right there on

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well on the japanese uh robotics

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operation side we have deployed four

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satellites actually using the japanese

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robotic arm and the airlock usually when

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you talk about the satellite deploy we

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use you usually use a rocket and then

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unlaunch it from the ground but we first

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bring it to the station and then using

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the robotic arm to deploy those small

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satellites that's an experimental stage

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but this has accomplished a lot

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it makes it easier for the developers to

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to package the small satellites and then

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deliver to orbit this is one example of

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engineering experiments that we are

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yeah from my perspective uh i just

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arrived four weeks ago so i like to say

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i'm still getting warmed up on the

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scientific research but i have been

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involved in a few uh right now in the

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columbus module we're checking out a

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facility called bio lab

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and once that is uh opera fully

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operational and up and uh and checked

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out we'll be doing experiments with the

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researchers on the ground in various and

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various things and then there's also

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some fluid controls experiments that

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we're doing up here so it's basically

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across the whole spectrum of various

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scientific fields that we're doing

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research up here and where it leads is

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is who knows is that's why we do this

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research because great things can come

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right and i have actually kept up with

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some of those experiments through

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twitter posts um astro and i eli and i

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mike can you talk to me a little bit

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about your use of social media to

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communicate with your twitter twitter

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following and then uh your family as

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yeah you bet uh you know to be honest i

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i really wasn't into the the social

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media before uh really about a year

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before launch and then i started doing

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uh the twitter

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and and i've really enjoyed it actually

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it's kind of fun to try and pick out

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those unique uh events that are

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happening up here on station or unique

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uh views that we get to see either of

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the earth or of of the station itself

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and share that with people and that's a

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nice it's a nice media for us to be able

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to do that and and so it's been it's

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and while i have you you grew up in

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rural missouri can you talk to me a

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little bit about maybe a message you

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would like to send back to folks here in

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yeah

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i'd love to say hi to everybody in

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missouri and thanks for all the support

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over the years i certainly wouldn't have

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gotten here without without all of that

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you know missouri is a wonderful place i

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i haven't lived there

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long term since i finished high school

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and went off to college but i certainly

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miss it and i enjoy the time when i get

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all right

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now some people view the space

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expeditions as costly and a large

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expense for the nation can you talk to

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me about how you guys think the work you

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are doing is really paying off and

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yes it's of course it's quite expensive

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to build the space station and operate

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it and maintain it but if you look at

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the overall cost to the uh

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it's less than one percent

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of the tax dollars goes to nasa so we're

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talking fractions of a penny from every

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dollar go to nasa so in the scheme of

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things it's not very much compared

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relative to other programs but that

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doesn't mean we should be doing it

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unless it has good reason and there have

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been many studies throughout the years

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and i've seen numbers like a seven to

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one ratio

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where nasa the dollar spent on nasa

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returned the economy seven times over so

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there's a lot of other studies out there

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that show similar numbers but i think

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there's many other reasons that you

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can't quantify with just dollar values

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just the uh the fact that as humans we

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want to go and explore we have a lot of

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questions that we want to get answered

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and that's why we do the things we do

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that's why we

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up here doing research on board the

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international space station right now in

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order to better life on earth and in

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order to

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help us move further beyond the low

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earth orbit so a lot of good benefits

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both monetarily and uh just

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you know

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all right and um

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if you would like to talk to me a little

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bit about how people are always curious

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how you acclimate

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once you get back on earth have you done

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anything to prepare for when you are

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yeah well let me first start to say

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there was an acclimation period when i

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first got up here in fact when i first

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arrived on station in fact when i first

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arrived in orbit

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i felt like i was sitting upside down on

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the ceiling and falling and that feeling

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stuck with me for probably the first 24

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hours and so there is certainly a period

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of time to get acclimated to the the

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weightless environment and and realizing

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that there's not really an up or down

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and and you can just orientate yourself

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in any way

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since this is my first flight i haven't

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landed yet so i'm going to let one of

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yeah landing is very interesting uh

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vestibular system is a little uh

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i don't know uh not so used to this 1g

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environment so for a day or two

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it's somehow i have some balance issues

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but

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after that

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you know

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you go back to normal when i first drove

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my car after landing i thought i had a

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really luxurious car because i really

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felt the suspension got so nice

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so but it disappeared after a few days

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and i was so surprised coming up here

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and going down human body can react to a

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new environment very quickly we're so

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all right and

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you are all spending the holidays in the

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iss

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family

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yeah that's uh that's a great question

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and you know obviously we we do miss our

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families but uh

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all of our organizations nasa and uh

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jackson they they do a great job of

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helping us keep in touch with our

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families so that certainly helps through

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the holiday season but for me i would

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say a couple things fresh produce is

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something that you i certainly miss and

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and then you know being able to take a

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and mike you played football at the

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university of illinois

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you know i don't know if you have been

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keeping up with missouri football but

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now we are advancing

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and is there a message you would like to

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send maybe our mizzou football team

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yeah absolutely

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in fact congratulations to just an

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amazing season seasons like this don't

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come along very often and so you just

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have to cherish that moment not only for

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the football team but also for all the

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fans everybody out there that that loves

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the game of football it is it's just

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fantastic sees this moment because

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before you know it

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it's gone

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and you might find yourself floating on

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the space station and not playing

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and you had talked about

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they help you communicate with your

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families you know through the holidays

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just talk to me a little bit more about

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how often you are able to speak with

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them and

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email through the phone just the best

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yeah it's uh it's pretty uh good setup

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here obviously we have email that we

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could send on a daily basis but we also

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have what's called the ip phone and it's

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we can make a phone call anytime there's

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a video or ku coverage with the ground

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and that's probably more than 50 maybe

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60 percent of the time

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uh and then once a week we get a video

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conference with our spouses and our

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children or with close friends if we

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want to so it's great it's a great way

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to keep in touch with the with the

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family back home and even with our

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friends and everybody enjoys getting a

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phone call from space every once in a

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all right and one last question just

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from a weather standpoint have you been

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able to see the phenomenon known as

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sprites up there

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uh on this flight i have not seen it yet

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in my previous flights on the shuttle i

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think i saw sprite the lightning going

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up above the clouds and this time we

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have really nice

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video cameras and

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photo cameras so hopefully we will be

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able to capture some of those sprite

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events and i'm looking for that

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all right well thank you for your time

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and good luck with the projects the rest

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thank you very much it was great talk to

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station this is houston acr that

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and thank you cbs news pass and komu tv