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houston chronicle this is mission

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control houston please call station for

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a voice check

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station this is the houston chronicle

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hello houston chronicle space station

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hears you loud and clear

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that's great good morning guys how y'all

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hey uh good morning down there it's uh

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we're doing good up here it's been a

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great day

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i wanted to ask you what it was like to

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conduct those two spacewalks right

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before christmas so were you guys happy

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well you know it was a very busy time

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after the failure occurred and we

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started preparing for those space walks

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we were very very busy so

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we really didn't have much time to

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celebrate the holidays but we were very

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happy to do these space walks they were

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very challenging very difficult to

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prepare for but of course they're also

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very exciting and and we enjoy doing

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doing them because we train so hard to

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prepare for them so we always like to

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execute what we train for

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so it did take a little bit away from

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our holidays but i think it was worth

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the trade

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were you still were you still able to

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celebrate uh christmas day with uh with

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uh yes yes we were actually it worked

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out fantastic in that regard uh you know

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we got everything done on christmas eve

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and on christmas day we were able to

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relax a little bit have a little bit of

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time off and and we did in fact

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celebrate uh here on station and and had

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the chance to call family and friends as

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that that's great

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now i know that some of the science labs

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were taken offline when there was a

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cooling issue is everything back and

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running at full capacity in terms of

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yeah absolutely uh we are back at full

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capacity science is going uh strong in

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fact we've had a lot of science going on

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today and a lot came up with the cygnus

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vehicle that just uh docked on

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so yeah science is full go right now

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that's great to hear about how many

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hours do you guys get to spend say in a

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know the uh the nasa folks on the ground

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track it uh i think

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35 or 40 hours something like that but

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uh you know there's uh those that's a

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pure research number i think there's a

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little bit more time that we spend

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preparing uh for the different

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experiments and tearing them down so i'm

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not exactly how it's measured

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speaking of the uh the station itself um

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if you there could be one improvement on

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the station what would you like to see

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it would it be more space to to live and

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work

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space station would be to have a have

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more manned vehicles flying back and

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uh uh the food and maybe a shower

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why why would more man why would more

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vehicles help just to have some

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redundancy in the system or you could

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have more opportunities to take science

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experiments they they get stored until

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those more frequent manned trips up here

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bring science back down as well i see

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now you guys do a lot of these you talk

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to the media you talk to kids you talk

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to dignitaries what's one question that

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you guys wish people would ask but they

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few of them um i did have one question

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it once and i really liked it and it was

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uh tell us one thing about the space

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station that you wouldn't know about it

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unless you've actually been there and i

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i thought you were going to ask me that

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when when you first get up here and you

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start to live on station

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fantastic machine it is and and actually

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alive there's always something happening

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day even when we're resting you can

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still hear the station as it does all

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the life support systems and everything

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just keep working and so you kind of get

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station and and that i don't think you

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your workouts going in space what are

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you able to do up there what are you not

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able to do and what do you miss

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with what we're able to do up here um if

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scenery as opposed to just running on a

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treadmill but uh we've got the weight

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machine up here and we're able to do

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that core lifting a lot a lot of those

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a day so we spend a lot of time on them

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best shape i've ever been because

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great view but the weather the weather

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up there would you rather have george

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astronauts or career missions um

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answer first and then we'll let mike

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fourth mission i do hope to get involved

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yeah actually i'm having the time of my

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life this is absolutely fantastic

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to fly again i feel very blessed to have

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see there's a lot of other people that

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seize on it but if it doesn't happen as

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over the holidays and and appreciate you

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yeah thank you very much it was great

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the houston chronicle portion

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of the event please stand by for a voice

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check from sirius xm radios politics of

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we have a window of opportunity we

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expedition 38 flight engineers michael

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hopkins and rick mastracchio of nasa are

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joining us here on potus so yes you are

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talking to people who are

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up there if you will gentlemen thank you

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for uh being with us today and let me

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start with you michael hopkins uh what's

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it like first of all and how's your

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how's your mission going and tell us a

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everything is going really well we're

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very excited about the opportunity to be

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december and then we just recently had

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the arrival of the orbital one vehicle

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the gordon fullerton vehicle which

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exciting so it's been very busy um here

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colonel of course and i appreciate you

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change is the excitement still there for

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yeah this is my fourth mission up here

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but the first three were only two week

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missions on board the space shuttle so

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this time i'm actually living up here on

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the space station so it's quite a bit

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different

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and but i'm it's still very exciting for

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me

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got to ask you have either one of you

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and i'll ask you first rick have either

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uh yeah mike has not seen it but uh just

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before i launched in november i think it

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was sometime in october we were in

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moscow we went to a moscow theater and

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did watch the movie gravity

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well i'd have to say it was very

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entertaining it uh didn't always uh obey

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the laws of physics but it was

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absolutely uh entertaining movie and i

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enjoyed it

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i appreciate the the comment on that

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let's go back to you colonel hopkins

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once again we are talking live on the

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international space station here on

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potus and i'm wondering give us a sense

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of when you're out in and you've had to

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do some some missions outside of the uh

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space station

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and just i don't know if there's a way

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to put into words but for those of us

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who've never had that experience how can

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yeah i think uh one of the easiest ways

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to relate is the most intense thing i've

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i've ever done

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you're very excited but you're also very

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focused while you're doing it because

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obviously there's risks while you're out

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there you've got these incredible views

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of the planet that are unobstructed by

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any windows or anything like that

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so it's just breathtaking but at the

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same time you're constantly having to

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think about what you're doing

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making sure that you've got all your

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tools attached to you or attached to

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station that you're attached to station

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and so you constantly have that on your

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mind as well and so it's it's just an

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extremely intense time

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but it's also a very rewarding and very

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exciting time and i know that rick

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you're really a scientist can you give

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us a sense of how different it is uh

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doing things that are you know

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scientific either experiments or

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procedures in in outer space in a zero

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gravity and especially outside the the

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of the craft when it comes to you know

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the fact that you're working obviously

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in a vacuum just what's the nature of

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well there's a lot of different ways to

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answer that question first of all you

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know being up here in a in a micro g or

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a zero gravity environment if you will

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things are quite a bit different some of

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the things that are very hard on the

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planet earth you know lifting up at 800

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pound uh mass on the on the on the

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planet earth is obviously very difficult

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up here we could do that with one hand

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but then the simple things up here are

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very difficult like mike said just using

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a tool and you want to put that tool

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down somewhere you can't you have to

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attach it with a tether or you have to

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velcro it someplace so the little things

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become hard but the some of the

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impossible things become easy up here so

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it's it's kind of interesting how that

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works rick i know you're the first to

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come home uh you will be and i'm

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wondering what's the first thing you

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actually mike will be landing about

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eight weeks before me but the first

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thing of course i want to do is to see

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my family second thing of course will be

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to

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eat just about every food that i haven't

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and i'm sorry i mixed it up i thought

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colonel hopkins you're you're obviously

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coming back first but you'll be back i

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guess you're gonna be back in time for

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no actually i'll be up here for the

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olympics and then right after that uh

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early march the second week of march is

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when uh we're returning so only eight

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weeks to go and it's it's incredible how

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fast it's gone

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is that uh so i'm getting all my facts

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wrong so don't mind me if if at all if i

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just just just just i'm i'm being crazy

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here but i would like to know though uh

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when it comes to the olympics obviously

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this is a joint project the united

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states and russia and i'm wondering if

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there's any kind of discussion anything

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yeah actually you know it's more than

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just uh it's more than just russia in

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the us we also have our european

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partners our canadian partners and our

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japanese partners and it's uh there's a

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lot of similarities between what's

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happening here on the international

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space station and the olympics it's a

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great opportunity and it really shows

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the world what can happen when uh you

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have such international cooperation uh

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in terms of rivalry well i think

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certainly if uh if the hockey teams

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should uh meet up there's there's going

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to be uh maybe a little side bet on that

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well as rick mentioned too maybe if you

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could lift the 800 pound weights from

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outer space that would help you out if

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you guys were able to compete but i

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don't think they're going to allow that

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so rick mastracchio and michael hopkins

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colonel michael hopkins colonel from the

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us air force i appreciate you spending

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time with us best of luck and godspeed

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thank you very much we appreciate it

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all right an opportunity to catch up

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