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good morning welcome to mission control

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center here in houston we're in the

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international space station flight

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control room and i have one of our

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controllers with us joe pascucci who is

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a trajectory operations officer has

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trouble with that word for some reason

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joe why don't you tell us a little bit

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about what you do

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sure just in short my job is to know

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where the space station is

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and

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make sure that it is in the right place

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in the future

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for it to

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be ready to do anything that we need it

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to do

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and to protect it from any debris in

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space and make sure the astronauts on

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board stay safe

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great that's important stuff

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yes and now we have i think students in

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pennsylvania ap students who are going

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hi my name is leanne

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i had a question

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regarding the flight controller's duty

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of monitoring the location of jettisoned

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items in space which are the items that

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people intentionally throw away during

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the extravehicular activity

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i was wondering what types of items are

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typically thrown away and if that poses

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a greater risk for space debris later on

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that's a great question and that's

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um so there's a number of things that we

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during evas a lot of times crew will

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jettison items

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that are not safe to bring back inside

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or maybe will not fit through the hatch

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to go back inside or there's no place to

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store them outside the space station and

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they need to be gotten rid of

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so when those things are thrown away

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they do move away and we always make

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sure that they will be safe relative to

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and because there actually is an

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atmosphere still in the area of the

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space station the atmosphere actually

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drags them down and eventually they

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so we keep track of them through our

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our relationship with the air force who

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keeps track of all of those objects in

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space and we make sure that they will

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not pose a safety risk to the iss

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um

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the topo flight controller is

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responsible for informing universities

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and companies that have researched cargo

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aboard the iss with updates on its

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location what types of research

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cargo are typically brought aboard

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jettisons and one of the other things

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that we jettison or i prefer to say is

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deploy is payloads

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cubesats that have been built either by

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uh also uh there's a number of payloads

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in conjunction with those cameras and

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or letting them know what they saw

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thank you next question

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hi i'm melissa and one of the questions

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i wanted to know was how is trajectory

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have a space station because we need to

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be in orbit to do our jobs

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but the main thing that we do we are

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constantly monitoring where the iss is

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we need to keep track

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of when the sun is going to rise and

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something was launched at the right time

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angle the worst thing is is it could not

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if you launched something into orbit but

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you didn't do it at the right time you

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could put yourself in a position to be

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enough energy on board a vehicle to be

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complete a rendezvous imagine that would

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be hard with all the safeguards sorry go

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hi my name is christine

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what type of

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most of uh all of the topos have a

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degrees in in engineering of some kind i

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have a degree in aerospace engineering

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uh there are some other topos who have

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question um if you were told as a child

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that you would work for nasa in mission

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control when you grew up how would you

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good afternoon my name is matt the

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question i have for you today is um have

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i think that's right i think we haven't

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found any living organisms that we

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wondering how often do you have to

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change the direction of the space

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reboosts about once a month

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questions have to deal with space in

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general rather than the space station

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i don't know that i'm the right person

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to ask that question to that seems like

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a question for a theoretical physicist i

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think we've got a lot of different um

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things like the hubble space telescope

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something called the james webb space

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telescope that give us just that kind of

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information they can look far beyond um

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you know what we're able to see from

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here on earth and give us all kinds of

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where it came from um how it started

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okay awesome thanks and is space

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hello again um question i want to ask is

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um what is the future plans for the iss

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have people living 24 7 and have had for

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that's going on right now they're doing

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station meanwhile we're also working

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the space station and letting

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more on future missions which we are

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building the orion spacecraft for um

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the international space station orbits

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test with the space launch system which

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nasa is building a it's a new rocket

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that's going to let us launch orion out

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of low earth orbit um

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that that's going to be in 2017 and then

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hello my name is madison and i was

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wondering what type of interaction do

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and the propulsion system on the iss is

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actually in the russian segment so we

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have a very close relationship with our

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counterparts in russia

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and also we have visiting vehicles that

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come from the european space agency and

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the japanese space agency the atv and

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htv

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plus commercial partners that are now

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sending vehicles to the iss so we have

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relationships with all of them

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with their visiting vehicles to to make

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sure that we can support them

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successfully

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hello my name is emily

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i was wondering if nasa is currently

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searching for new

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new planets and solar systems that can

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sustain human life and has nasa found

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we nasa does have um some

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various instruments that are looking for

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exactly that sort of thing and i think

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just recently we had announcement about

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a new earth-like planet that we found

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that's another thing that probably we're

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not the best people to tell you about

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but there's lots of good information on

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nasa.gov

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hello again

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um i'm backtracking a little bit but i

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was wondering if reboots are performed

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manually by the people aboard the iss or

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if you guys manage them

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we actually manage them from the ground

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uh the crew is aware of when they're

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going to happen but there's actually no

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crew involvement necessary for reboost

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as a matter of fact there have been

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times when reboots have been performed

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while the crew is sleeping

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and the acceleration is so low

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that the crew doesn't even realize it's

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going on

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there are some great videos that you can

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find on youtube that the crew crews have

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done

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of what it's like to be on board the iss

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during a reboost

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um hi my name is kiana and my question

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is what are some of the things nasa is

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doing to make travel time to other

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well um we travel to another planet is

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is going to take a long time at least

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for the foreseeable future it's it's not

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a quick process but what we're doing is

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we're building

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spacecrafts that will support the crew

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over that long journey um not just

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necessarily a spacecraft even they

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probably if we went to mars we need not

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only the

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orion capsule that we're building that i

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mentioned earlier but also a habitat for

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the crew to live in to give them a

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little bit more space to move around

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because it can be it can be several

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months to get to just for instance mars

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thank you

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um how long does the does it take for

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the iss to recharge in the sun like

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under the sun's rays

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the solar rays yeah the solar rays so

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as the iss passes into daylight it

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so that's okay uh so as there are

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certain times where we actually need to

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stop moving the solar arrays uh say when

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a vehicle is approaching or departing

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the iss or

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for other reasons

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that essentially

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because we're not tracking the sun we're

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not charging batteries as efficiently as

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they could be charged and the iss can

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can stay in that condition for

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a fair amount of time i think at least

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in orbit or two before it needs to uh be

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pointing its arrays back at the sun to

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maintain charge in batteries

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and orbit takes about 90 minutes so yeah

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orbit one one orbit of the earth is

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hello my name is shannon and i wanted to

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know if you knew about any asteroids or

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comments that could impact the path of

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the iss in the near future

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i am not aware of any comments or

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asteroids that we're concerned about the

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the main thing that we're constantly

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tracking

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is uh

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the stuff that people have put in space

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uh that threaten the iss and we're

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watching for that stuff all the time

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um

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hi i'm mark case and i'm what happened

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those would be the apollo missions that

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were never flown

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right

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those we um canceled those missions so

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that we could go ahead and get started

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on work for the space shuttle which then

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went on to fly for 30 years and help us

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okay

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and i have another question um when is

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nasa planning on landing on mars and

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oh okay so uh nasa has plans um i think

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we would we would be going to mars and

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probably the 2030s um is

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our our thoughts at this point and as

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for what the topo would do that would

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probably be a question for you so the

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role of the topo would be to manage the

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trajectory uh to get us to mars to make

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sure

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that we were flying a safe trajectory

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and the most efficient trajectory that

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okay thank you

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hi my name is monica and um

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have there been recent discoveries of

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ufos or suspicious suspicious objects

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and with our current technology how is

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how easy is it for nasa to define these

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suspicious objects i i don't think i've

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heard of any any suspicious objects that

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have been found

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we obviously keep an eye on a lot of

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different things in this in this space

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in in space um and in the universe but i

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haven't heard of anything that's

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suspicious

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and i would agree with that

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hello i have a question the

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international space station is

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constantly falling because and because

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of this do astronauts on the iss have

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the constant feeling of weightlessness

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while in the space station like feeling

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of weightlessness like on a

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yes they do have a constant feeling of

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weightlessness while they're in orbit

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and as a matter of fact uh

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as long as they stay uh near the uh the

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center of iss

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uh they're in an area that that we refer

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to as the microgravity envelope where uh

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where it truly does feel like there's no

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gravity

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there's actually you can move away from

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the center of the iss and actually begin

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to see the effects of the fact that you

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actually still are in a gravity field

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hello again um i was wondering what is

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the protocol if or when the iss gets hit

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with debris

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that's a great question

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uh

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i'll start with

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not letting it get hit with debris

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so we're constantly monitoring

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through our relationship with the air

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force

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all the debris that's in space and

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whether or not it's a threat to the iss

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and if it's if we do find debris that is

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a threat to the iss

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we begin planning to move the iss to

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make sure that debris is not a threat if

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something were to happen

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that

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we were not able to move the iss in time

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or we found out too late

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we do have procedures in place to

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shelter our the crew

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in the two soyuz vehicles onboard the

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iss which are the the well it's the

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vehicles that they used to get to the

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iss but they would be there also their

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emergency escape vehicles

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uh to get away from the iss

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and uh they do that and they're

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essentially ready to undock and leave

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the iss if it were to get hit by debris

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thank you

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um when will the robonaut 2 be finished

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unfortunately i have to turn to you to

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answer questions about robonaut um so

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you may have heard that just this week

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we announced that robonaut which has

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been on the space station since sts-133

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is going to be getting some legs sent up

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um on a future spacex vehicle that's

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going up in february so that'll get it

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that'll get it a little farther along on

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the journey um as far as being really

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complete you know robonaut's kind of a

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test project so that i don't know that

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there's a point where you really say

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it's complete um we'll probably keep

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sending up changes and new ideas to try

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out and and see what we end up see see

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what we end up with

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how do you learn to deal with the stress

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is it stressful here it could be a

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little stressful sometimes uh

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well it

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it's a matter of

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learning and knowing about yourself and

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what's the most struggle

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i'm sorry go ahead what's the most

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what's the most stressful situation

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you've ever experienced in mission

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control and with trajectory

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i'd say the most stressful uh

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experiences i've had here in in mission

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control since i've been working on the

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space station as a toppo

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have been the times when uh there is a

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piece of debris threatening the iss

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that we are monitoring and whether or

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not we're actually going to uh maneuver

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the iss to get away from it

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and that's probably different for

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different positions in the space in the

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in the flight control team right

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spacewalk officer might say that the

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spacewalk is the most stressful time or

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for a public affairs person like me and

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when we're i'm trying to talk about

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something that's really complicated so

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there it just depends on what you're

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doing i would agree that's probably

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probably about the same for every job

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there's there's times that are exciting

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and that's kind of what you what you

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like about the job but they're a little

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um yesterday the cooling capacitor

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something went wrong with it is there

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any

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new news that you can tell me about that

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sure um i can take that um so

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like you said we have

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a cooling two cooling loops actually on

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the space station and one of them had a

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problem yesterday

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that

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caused it to shut down and so the teams

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here on the ground have been working

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real hard to figure out exactly what

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caused the shutdown and what they're

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going to do to fix it so there's still a

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lot of work going on to to determine

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what the next steps are but people are

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people are working pretty hard and in

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the meantime the crew is doing just fine

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on board the space station they've got

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several things that they're able to work

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on today while they wait for the team

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here on the ground to work through that

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okay thank you um and what are your

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hours for working in mission control

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the hours can be

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anything that is required

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uh for my console specifically

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we normally work uh daytime hours

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uh only and then when we're required for

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overnight or evening shifts we come in

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and take care of that we're also on call

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24 hours a day

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again associated with protecting the iss

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from debris in space

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but the space station crew actually gets

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up at midnight central time so there

564
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have to be teams in here to help them um

565
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for that in the middle of the night for

566
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us which is just the beginning of their

567
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morning and we actually have

568
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three different teams that overlap by an

569
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hour and so each of their shifts are

570
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nine hours a piece and so the first one

571
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comes in and stays for nine hours and

572
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for the last hour they're handing over

573
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to somebody who's taken their place and

574
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okay thank you

575
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hi i have one more question i was

576
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wondering what type of software or

577
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technology you use to do your job on a

578
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basis so we have uh

579
00:23:27,430 --> 00:23:25,679
several pieces of software that we use

580
00:23:31,190 --> 00:23:27,440
to

581
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have uh

582
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most of them have been built

583
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in-house at nasa

584
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some are specialized for working in the

585
00:23:42,310 --> 00:23:40,159
control room they're specialized to be

586
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fast and allow us to

587
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perform computations very quickly

588
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with like a reasonable level of accuracy

589
00:23:51,190 --> 00:23:49,279
to do things in the immediate future

590
00:23:52,950 --> 00:23:51,200
we have other higher fidelity software

591
00:23:54,070 --> 00:23:52,960
that that is slower and takes more time

592
00:23:56,230 --> 00:23:54,080
to run

593
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that we use off console when doing

594
00:23:59,360 --> 00:24:05,430
okay thank you

595
00:24:09,350 --> 00:24:07,269
what was your favorite subject in high

596
00:24:13,830 --> 00:24:09,360
school

597
00:24:17,590 --> 00:24:13,840
favorite subject being

598
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probably followed by chemistry

599
00:24:25,190 --> 00:24:23,440
this will be the last question oh okay

600
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what was the highest level math you've

601
00:24:32,870 --> 00:24:30,470
uh the highest level math uh was just

602
00:24:35,029 --> 00:24:32,880
referred to as engineering mathematics

603
00:24:38,630 --> 00:24:35,039
but that would be a class above

604
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,669
okay thank you

605
00:24:45,190 --> 00:24:43,430
thanks so much guys we really appreciate

606
00:24:47,350 --> 00:24:45,200
your questions and again

607
00:24:49,510 --> 00:24:47,360
we enjoyed answering them and you should

608
00:24:51,350 --> 00:24:49,520
check out nasa.gov for more information

609
00:24:53,350 --> 00:24:51,360
on some of the things we weren't able to

610
00:24:54,549 --> 00:24:53,360
to fill you in completely on thanks