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station this is houston are you ready

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houston station is ready for the event

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nbc nightly news this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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stand by i've always wanted to say this

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international space station this is

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brian williams at nbc news in new york

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hello brian we hear you loud and clear

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nice to have you and i guess we'll uh uh

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get underway uh first off what's it like

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uh we have yet to see sandra bullock up

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oh yeah well that's what i hear from so

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many astronauts who uh enjoyed the movie

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well we'll get serious first uh it is

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true that gravity was

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probably the best uh geographic lesson

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in the confines of the iss that a lot of

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americans have had

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since the inception of the iss but

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recently you were in the news of a few

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people here on earth had some fun with

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you with the snorkel and the helmet and

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the absorbent pads to keep from drowning

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but you had you had a couple of space

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walks to fix a problem nasa loves

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redundancies there was a redundancy for

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the pump that broke but still it

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required you to go out and do some

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repair work the two of you talk us

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through that in lay terms what it

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yeah i'll give you a big picture

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basically we have two cooling systems up

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equipment these cooling systems are

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external they cool the internal systems

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and one of the uh pump modules had a

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problem basically a valve wasn't working

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properly so we lost half our cooling

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very simply we had to go outside and

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replace the pump module unit it's a big

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800 pound unit and that required a

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series of evas or space walks so the

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ground team got together this is

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something we practice on a regular basis

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in the large swimming pool in houston

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the ground folks got together sent us up

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station's back up everything is running

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perfectly we're back to doing science on

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and back to life on board the spacecraft

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you orbit roughly every 90 minutes you

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travel the distance from the earth to

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the moon on a daily basis

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how cognizant are you at any one time

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about where you are

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you get busy inside here there's not a

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lot of windows to look out and so you

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can kind of forget uh where you are and

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you we have what we call a world map on

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station is so a lot of times you'll get

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busy and you want to know where you are

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so you have to take a look at that world

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map and if it's somewhere you're

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interested in taking a picture then you

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and get a picture of it

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but other than that it's a working

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environment there's no sense of speed or

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motion at seventeen thousand five

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hundred miles an hour and uh it's just

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the sense of that speed until you do

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how fast the the earth is going by below

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states and that's probably less than 10

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the united states so it happens quick

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homesickness can't be an option for

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people in your line of work but what

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what is it like being up there for the

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holidays the uh

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some terrific college football games the

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nfl playoffs uh whatever it is that you

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during the holidays it's hard you know

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of military folks and a lot of folks who

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the holidays and they all know how it

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feels and we feel the same way but if

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you have to be you know the way we think

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about it is if you have to be away from

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home during the holidays there's not too

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many places better than being here on

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low earth orbit but we have pretty good

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connectivity with our families at home

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telephone that we can call home almost

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conferencing with our families about

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once a week and of course we have email

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chiefs patriots but that could be wildly

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already gone home for the season but uh

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the uh the rams i guess would be but

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well you're going to do very well in the

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and rick what about you

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yeah brian i grew up in connecticut kind

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of halfway between new york and boston

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and uh i grew up as a giants fan a new

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york giants fan and i'm still a big fan

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of the giants and of course i'm a fan of

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all bleed giants blue all the good

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people down here um uh moving on to the

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olympic games how much how much of the

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olympics will you be able to see either

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extent of your television viewing and of

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course you'll get a better view of sochi

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russia than most of us looking right

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area yesterday and i actually got some

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great photographs of the area and

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tweeted some of those as far as the

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olympic goes i'm sure that the the nasa

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folks are more than willing to uh give

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a list of the different uh

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events that we want to see they'll be

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of course it's tough to top um

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canada up there who famously

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made some fabulous instructional how-to

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videos how to uh brush your teeth and

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the bathroom works up there

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produced and recorded space oddity

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ground control to major tom from space

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uh what you plan to top that whether

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the fact that this many adults are

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hurtling around the earth every 90

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spacecraft that's slowly been growing

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here and it's been going now for over 10

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365 days out of the year and that's and

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orbit and and so i think that's very

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exciting and i'd like to see people all

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rick same question

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the shuttle many times and i've heard

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from many different folks oh is nasa

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never went out of business the shuttle

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program is going strong and like mike

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days a year and have been doing so for

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challenge actually but it was very

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rare opportunity for an astronaut so i

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really enjoyed it the biggest challenge

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proving that i'm about 20 years

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out of date what did as in your civilian

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life as you relate to family and friends

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what has the movie gravity done

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understanding of the international space

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station and other than the fact that

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sandra bullock's hair is not

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flying around in the movie and experts

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really enjoy what we do up here we're

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very proud of what nasa has accomplished

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public pays attention and understands

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exactly what we're doing up here as far

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country there are any number of websites

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happen to be

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and it'll tell you when the next

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overflight is uh of the iss and on a

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clear night if you're away from light

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pollution it's it's just a breathtaking

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sight to behold i saw you guys we were

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in the midwest and i saw you guys fly

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over uh about a week ago

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what is it that you have noticed about

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earth what perspective have you gained

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on the planet earth you see it all you

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see weather volcanoes

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tragedies uh beauty

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all in the course of a day's work

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yeah you know it's quite interesting uh

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what surprised me about uh getting our

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view of earth is there's not a part of

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the earth that isn't absolutely

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beautiful i was quite surprised as we

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went over uh regions that are like

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deserts and i wouldn't think that that

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would would have a a lot of beauty to it

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but then you see how these sand dunes

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are formed by the winds and these these

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just amazing patterns in the sand dunes

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and and and what i found then is that as

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we go around the earth every part of it

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there it is just absolutely beautiful

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now one of the things you did mention is

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uh perspective and and it is

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easy to lose perspective up here because

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when you see things like a hurricane

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from our view

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absolutely beautiful these huge cloud

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formations and and it's very easy to

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lose sight of the fact that there's

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tragedy happening down below that and so

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we always need to keep that in mind

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uh mike i've always wondered uh how much

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detail can you see is there a is there

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an earth landmark that you can make out

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that surprised you how big does

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something have to be to be visible

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whether it's a building or red square or

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the mall in washington uh give us some

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perspective i guess you're roughly just

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yeah we're about 260 miles up in and

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from with the naked eye you know you can

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see the cities uh just in general but

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what's really neat is when you start to

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use the the cameras and you and you take

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the photos of them and you can zoom in

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and you can really start to see quite a

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bit of detail you can see airplanes at

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the airport you can see boats on rivers

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and so that's kind of exciting to be

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flying over that you see the city that

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you want to take a picture of and then

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you take that picture and you can zoom

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in with with quite a bit of detail on on

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and isn't it true rick you've watched

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rocket launches come up and go past you

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other astronauts have we have yet to see

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i think mike might have seen something

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yeah actually when i first arrived this

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was before uh rick and and koichi

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arrived up here we had the opportunity

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to see a

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test missile launch out of rush out of

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uh out of baikonur in kazakhstan and it

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was absolutely incredible when they you

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saw the smoke trail as it uh launched

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into orbit and then once it got into

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orbit there was just a absolutely huge

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cloud that that formed in space and and

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uh and got very large and so absolutely

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incredible uh view and and we actually

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were lucky and got some some great

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uh well mike starting with you um as we

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are uh wrapping up here what is your

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wish for 2014 and your message to the

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well i know uh right now obviously

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things have been pretty rough down in in

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the us and actually all over with the

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with the weather and everything so first

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and foremost would be that everybody

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stay safe uh

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throughout 2014 and uh of course would

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would like to say hello to to my family

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and friends and everybody out there and

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and look forward to for for both of us

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same question

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yeah and for me

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yeah okay for me uh obviously the same

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thing top of my head my

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new year's resolution is to have a safe

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landing on the planet earth sometime

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this year of course but and to all the

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folks on earth you know there's so many

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things that you wish for the whole

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planet but uh when you are kind of

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flying above all these different

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countries and all these different

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regions and you kind of see them all as

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just one big planet it sure makes you

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wish that obviously

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folks can put aside their differences

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it's great something that makes me very

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happy is to see the olympics and i think

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it's going to be exciting to get all the

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countries come together and even that

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for those short period of time work

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well a lot of us envy the vantage point

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you'll have on all of it thank you

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gentlemen for the work you do uh thank

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you very much for uh representing nasa

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up there and thank you most of all for

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spending time with us today uh we'll

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have a good time with this on television

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and we'll continue to spread the story

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of the iss to our viewers happy and

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thank you brian we enjoyed talking to

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you and

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we watch your show every day at

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lunchtime and we appreciate the

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hey thanks for trying to find that house

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in australia i appreciate it i won't ask

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thanks gentlemen yeah that was exciting

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yeah you bet brian thank you very much

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and thank you houston and everybody down

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station this is houston acr thank you

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that concludes our event

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