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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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space.com this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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station this is miriam kramer with

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i'm sorry i can't i can't hear anything

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okay i just heard somebody there

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oh great hi rick this is miriam cramer

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thanks so much for chatting with us

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oh you're welcome glad to be here

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so some people have trouble just picking

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a super bowl watch party or dealing with

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time differences during the olympics but

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crew members on the space station have

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to contend with trying to keep up with

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sports from hundreds of miles above the

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earth

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so we're getting excited here in new

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york because the super bowl is in our

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neck of the woods this year are you

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looking forward to the big game on the

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oh yes i i'm definitely looking forward

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to it of course uh we're not going to be

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able to watch it real time up here but

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uh hopefully uh houston will

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uplink a version of it uh the next day

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or within a few days and we'll get to

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watch it so we just got to be careful

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nobody tells us the score before we do

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great and are you rooting for somebody

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well you know i think i think i'm

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leaning towards the denver broncos i

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don't feel strongly about either team

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but uh it'd be great to see uh to see

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peyton manning win another super bowl

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great yeah and as a as a tennessee

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native i am also rooting for the broncos

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we have heard that the space station has

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about the wingspan of a football field

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so have you guys ever tried to play

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football on the station and is there

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oh we have all manner of sport sports

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equipment up here i know on my last

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mission we actually played a little bit

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of baseball you know kind of in slow

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motion you got to be careful up here

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there's a lot of scientific equipment

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and expensive things that you don't want

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to break but every once in a while uh

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yeah we have uh we have some fun up here

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we don't have a lot of time for it but

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we do have some fun up here time to time

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and also the olympics are coming up in

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february do you expect any

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friendly international competition

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games oh yeah i think so you know we've

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got the the japanese astronaut we got

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three russian astronauts and then you

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uh i think there'll be some friendly

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competition especially uh you know maybe

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if the hockey teams rushing russian and

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u.s hockey teams meet head to head that

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with some food items or something

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what kind of food items can you can you

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oh yeah you know the key up here is uh

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different it's it's definitely a

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treat so uh i'm sure i'm sure the

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russians have a lot of good food and

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great and and which olympic winter sport

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sport in weightlessness especially the

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uh winter olympics you know we don't

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spacewalk like we had last month with

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around you kind of feel like a gymnast

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doing those incredible feats of course

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difficulty doing it in the 1g

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that's great that actually leads right

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into a question that we got from a

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reader drive hyman on facebook asks how

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orientation works on the space station

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so how do you keep yourself from being

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there is no up and down here in in space

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and it's easy to get disoriented

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start kind of putting your head inside a

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locker or behind a rack once you come

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out of that locker rack you're like okay

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recognizes where i am but a lot of times

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um and we also we have a question from

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robert perlman the editor of

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collectspace.com one of our partner

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sites and he writes the olympic torch

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you and your crewmates had aboard the

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station uh will be seen by millions more

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when it's used during the opening

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ceremonies at the games so what mesh

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message about the space station or the

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symbolic connection between space and

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what message do you have about the space

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between space exploration and the

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well that's easy i think the the key

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phrase is international cooperation both

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the olympics and the international space

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station are great examples of what can

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folks can do when they get together all

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these different countries get together

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the olympics are an incredible event all

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these different nations from around the

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world get together to participate in the

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athletic events look at the

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international space station again you

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building hardware and then we assembled

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perfectly so international cooperation

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great and um i know that you won't be

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able to watch the super bowl live but do

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a tv station for us and of course we'll

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and actually circling back to the super

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bowl i know that mike hopkins your

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fellow nasa astronaut on the station is

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pretty into football um so are you two

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rooting for the same team this year is

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mike's a big college football fan he

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watches you know he watches in tracks

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professional football fan uh and of

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york giants fan since i'm up from around

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that area and it would have been great

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to see them in the super bowl this year

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but uh that didn't happen but uh sounds

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same team in the super bowl

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that's great and do you have any super

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bowl traditions that you're going to

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miss this year that you would be doing

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well my usual super bowl tradition is

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sitting in my chair watching the game in

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my living room or study so obviously

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that's going to be quite a bit different

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forward to watching a great game

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that's great um and we have another

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on twitter but do you have a favorite a

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have a favorite city the easiest one

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washington dc you got new york city you

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these major cities all in one place and

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map especially at night you could see

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all the big cities all well lit up so

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where i know i know that area the best

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of course so it's easier it's easiest to

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recognize but all the major cities

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around the world are very interesting to

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look at and if you get the right vantage

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point there they're beautiful and you

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get some fantastic pictures of almost

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much for chatting with us today rick

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really appreciate it have a have a great

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thank you very much i appreciate it take

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care