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station this is leland in the ass cans

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leland and the ass cans we hear you loud

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you guys are looking great up there

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we're going to take some questions from

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well let's just say they make us do that

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you have to do that right just keep your

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what was the thing that got you so

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guys that's a long time ago uh leland

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nasa it's a fantastic place to work it's

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hello my name is johnny and i go to

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dreaming and i had a call the uh i

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see what questions are out there so we

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years from now and so you know there's

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going to be a lot of big accomplishments

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uh just by keeping the uh the space

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station running we've got more visiting

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vehicles that are going to be coming up

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here we've got we just had orbital come

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up we're going to have spacex coming up

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soon then another orbital we've got

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russian progress vehicles coming up and

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i'm sure there's going to be some more

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evas that are going to be planned uh

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this year as well so

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it's it's always busy and i expect a lot

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of great things are going to happen this

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hey i think we have another question

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from the ask answer nick you've got a

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question yeah hey guys i i was wondering

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if you could um kind of share with the

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audience here we talked about working

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out and trying to prevent bone loss and

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muscle atrophy could you talk about some

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of the things that you did

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in terms of athletics growing up and

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maybe a little bit about what you have

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yeah that's a good question nick i

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flying in space space shuttle missions

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that i've done before now space station

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mission it's a team event it's a team

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sport so i think it's very important

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growing up to play team sports football

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baseball basketball soccer hockey all

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those different sports i think

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it gives you a big advantage to learn to

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play with your teammates to work with

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your teammates to work together to

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achieve a common goal because that's

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what we do up here it's exactly what we

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do up here when you're on a mission

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you're working with your crew mates

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you're working with the folks on the

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ground you're working with the

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scientists and it's one big team one big

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happy family and you have to learn to

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work together and the only way you're

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going to move forward and accomplish the

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goals is by working together so i think

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it's a directly related the team sports

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and the uh and the uh the missions that

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we do and growing up i played i played a

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lot of sports i played football i played

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basketball

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and uh lots of different things mostly

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in the street with my friends but also

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some organized sports uh in school

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great now mike if we ripped it together

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you know the wide receiver defensive

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back clash would be happening right now

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you know

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let's take another question from social

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media yeah you're going down

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sure so we have a question for the

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candidates uh

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in the tradition of the question asked

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to the mercury astronauts which one of

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which one

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they're going they going as a team

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together

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we're hoping for a big capsule they can

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okay

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any other social media maybe one more

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what aspect of the training have you

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yeah for me that's that's an easy one uh

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i enjoyed the eva training

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i enjoyed spending time uh in the suits

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in the water and it was just absolutely

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fantastic when you came up here we

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weren't scheduled to have an eva

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unfortunately we had some problems with

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the station with the cooling loop

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external cooling loop and so we had to

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go outside in december and fix it and

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and so getting to take that training all

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of that training that that we spent down

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on the ground and apply it up here was

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i think drew you got a question

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hey mike rick uh drew down here back on

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earth i had a question or actually i was

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going to ask you rather than

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just floating around there sitting i was

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wondering if you could do some acrobatic

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tricks for us

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we call those stupid astronaut tricks

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okay yeah i could get mike to do some

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now i got to give him a cookie or

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something

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good job good job

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okay any more social media questions

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sure uh women in the air wants to know

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how has life changed since being

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okay

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any for them

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that's for us up here or on the ground

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i think that's on the ground

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but we'll get another one to you in a

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sec

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well i think it's every aspect of our

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lives has really changed and for for

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pretty much all of us it's just a dream

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come true and it's still really

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difficult to believe you know every

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morning we wake up and feel like we have

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to pinch ourselves to think could this

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dream that i had since i was five years

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old how could it have actually come true

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and all of us had these careers that we

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absolutely loved

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before doing this and so you know it's a

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little bit sad to leave those careers

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but of course at any cost of getting our

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dream our days have changed entirely we

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all moved together to houston and and

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now all became a family together which

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has been another huge part of it so i

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think really every aspect of our lives

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has changed but all in positive

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wonderful ways

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great

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hey mike and rick can you tell the

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students here where you're actually

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floating what is the module that you're

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currently in and what are the things

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yeah right now we're in the u.s

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laboratory behind us is a node two and

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that's where we sleep and that's where

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we uh where we sleep at night we each

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have a small crew quarters

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uh forward of us or after the space

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station is the russian segment here in

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the u.s laboratory there's a lot of

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different uh science racks we have an

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exercise bike to bike to our right

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on our left uh we have a

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it's a glove box a micro gravity science

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glove box so there's a science

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experiment in there right now we have

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freezers off over here right over the

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camera again you can't see it we have a

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so to speak a galley where we get uh we

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drink uh get our drinking water and fill

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food bags and rehydrate our water i

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should say so this is a very busy place

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this is kind of the center of the u.s

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segment right here this u.s laboratory

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fantastic well mike and rick we're

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really proud of both of you what you're

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doing to help advance our civilization

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through space travel and you guys look

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really great we wish we could be there

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with you especially my ass cam buddies

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which they could be there with you but

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uh we look forward to you coming back

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home sometime soon we'll get you a nice

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greasy cheeseburger for you to eat when

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you get back home

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all right thank you so much for this

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time with the kids and

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these future explorers our future

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astronauts give them a big round of

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and we probably have 30 seconds left for

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i'll hold the microphone while he does

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all right you guys look great thank you