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hi everybody josh barley here inside

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mission control houston i'm joined by

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ginger carrick a flight director also

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works for mission operations we are here

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to take her well she's here to take your

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questions i'm probably going to be a

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little bit quiet because ginger's the

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smart one so let's uh let's go ahead and

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get your questions there in el paso

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hi my name is alexis and my question is

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what did you study at hank's high school

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in el paso and at texas tech university

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that prepared you for work at nasa

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hi alexis i studied physics um i enjoyed

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all math and science classes in high

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school but when i went to texas tech i

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majored in physics and got my master's

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my bachelor's and my master's degree and

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the reason it helps is physics provides

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you a very broad base of all the

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different types of sciences and here at

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nasa we work with all different kinds of

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thank you

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hi my name is adrian perez and my

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question is did you have a special

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teacher in high school that pushed you

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toward your nasa goals

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um hi adrian yes i certainly did

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my high school chemistry teacher his

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name was henry masterson and he always

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encouraged me to to

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do really well in my in my classes but

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i remember he also encouraged me to stay

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home when we had the shuttle launches

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and so even if i had to miss chemistry

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class he thought it was more important

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for me to pursue my interest at nasa

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although i had to do extra work to make

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sure that that i my grades stayed up

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hello my name is leslie and

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my question is what was it like being at

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nasa intern how can i apply to work at

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nasa in the future

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i loved being a nasa intern i can still

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remember the very first day that i came

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on site and when you drive in you used

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to be able to see the big saturn rocket

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and i thought my gosh i have scored i

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finally got here and i was able to work

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on a lot of interesting projects but

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anyone if you have a good gpa and and

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primarily if you're interested in math

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and science but they do offer other

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internships as well but you can go to

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interns.nasa.gov

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and it'll tell you all about how to

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hi my name is erica and my question is

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you are the first non-astronaut capcom

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what is a capcom and why is why was the

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position only held by astronauts that's

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an interesting question so that capcom

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is short for capsule communicator but

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really it's the person in mission

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control that talks to the crew so when

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the crew says houston we have a problem

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i'd be the person to key the mic and ask

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them what the problem is um historically

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it has always been an astronaut because

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the people that were in space wanted to

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talk to somebody on the ground that had

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seen what they had seen been where they

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had been and thought like a crew member

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i was able to perform this task to be

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the first person because for the

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international space station when we had

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the first crew on board there were no

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astronauts that had seen what they had

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seen and been where they had been since

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they were the first one but i had an

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opportunity to train four years with

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that crew so i was in a better position

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to do that and now it's a career path

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hi my name is sally and my question is

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what different positions do you hold in

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mission control before becoming a flight

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the path to a flight director normally

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you sit in one of the consoles here in

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mission control we have a bunch of

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different ones but the only one that i

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had ever sat at was the capcom or the

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capsule communicator console

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my name my name is jennifer my question

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is how do austrians train to use

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spacewalks and how does mission control

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support spacewalks on the iss

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okay so spacewalk is a very dangerous

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event and we've had some recently where

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we that has uh really uh come into play

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but so we want to make sure the crews

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are as prepared as they possibly can be

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one of the ways that we can train is we

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have this very large swimming pool

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where we will take the astronaut in the

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suit and put them in the swimming pool

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because that's really the only place you

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can simulate uh to the best of our

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abilities not a zero gravity i wish we

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had a zero gravity room sometimes we

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watch some of these movies and you think

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we have one but we do not so we practice

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that in the pool and they practice the

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tasks that they will do outside they

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the folks here in mission control so

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that when we're ready on the day of the

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event we have a full team in here and

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people have practiced and they

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understand what the tasks the crews are

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going to perform and they also even

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practice what if this goes wrong what if

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that goes wrong and

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so that on the day of execution

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everybody is prepared for anything that

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my name is destiny my question is

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how is one chosen to be the flight

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director and how long do you train

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wow so it's actually fairly competitive

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to be a flight director i forget how

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many we're up to now 88. it's gonna be

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of the program since 1958 there have

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about 88 or so flight directors so every

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couple of years um

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we accept applications and it's usually

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a top performer in one of the other

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system areas here and potentially people

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that have management experience i got in

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in 2005 with a class of eight other

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individuals

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and then i started my training to do a

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basic space station operations it

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requires about nine months to a year of

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once you get working in here then they

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other events that are a little bit more

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complicated like docking

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bringing in a new vehicle and letting

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that vehicle attach to the space station

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hi my name is bella lawrence and my

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question is is there anyone outside of

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mission control that tells the flight

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director what he or she should do

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besides my mother

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no no seriously in the in mission

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control you have one person in charge

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i will give you an example if the if the

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president himself if i were executing a

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mission and the president walked in and

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directed me to do something different

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that i thought was unsafe for either the

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crew or the vehicle i have full

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authority to override that decision so

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we have to set it up that way to protect

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the safety of the crew and the safety of

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hello my name is lizette garza and my

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question is how many positions are in

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mission control and how are you chosen

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to work in a particular position let's

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it looks like there's about 20 of us in

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so this is what you're what you're

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seeing now is mission control during the

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of their work day and they will be going

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to sleep a little bit later this

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afternoon around 3 30 our time when they

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about five or six people in here so we

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down staff where people are just

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monitoring the space station systems

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think how you you become a flight

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controller you study math and science a

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lot of these folks have bachelor's

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degrees in math science engineering

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they don't necessarily work in their

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specialty say you studied mechanical

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engineering or electrical engineering

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you might find yourself working with

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but the important thing is they they

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learn how to think as a critical problem

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solver by studying these subjects and

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make use of those skills here in mission

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hi my name's adrian dinger and my

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question is what is the most difficult

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emotional obstacle that you must

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overcome while a mission is going on and

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how do you cope with this ah

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would work missions in here when my best

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friends were on orbit and you worry

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about them as your friend you i'm a

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physicist so when they are getting ready

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to launch i understand the physics of

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the rocket and in my scientific mind i

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friend and they're being attached to

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this big old rocket and something might

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in here but you cannot exhibit that in

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front of the team because you are their

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hi my name is ariana and my question is

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how does mission control work through

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individually smart people but and i that

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i look to to ask very detailed questions

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but ultimately we we discuss um

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the uh the problem that we're facing and

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get inputs from everybody whether you're

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the one that's um that's the smartest in

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that area or not and then as a team

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collectively we uh make decisions it's

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very methodical it it's that's one

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comment i always tell people is it's not

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like the movies at all like you see the

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movies it's all dramatic and

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crazy with music playing and that's not

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at i think the first thing people

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realize whenever they walk in here it's

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just not like it's very

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hello my name is miguel and

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my question is have you seen the movie

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gravity does it scare you and how likely

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would such a scenario be

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i knew somebody was going to ask me that

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so no i didn't get time i was very busy

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and i never made it to i did i never

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made it to go see it and then so i'm

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looking for it on on netflix or whatever

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but so i will eventually watch that i

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have heard about it and um no

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sure there are two what they call

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tethers hooking together we would never

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ever ever be in a scenario where our

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crew member would be free flying now i

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say never never if something really very

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strange were to happen and we did

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the crews are actually equipped with

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these little backpacks that can help

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them get back to structure um but i

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think in the movie there's a piece of

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debris that comes out yeah we monitor

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debris all the time so the chances of

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that surprising us especially during a

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space walk nah nah nah but i hear it's a

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my name is helene bach and my question

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is have the astronauts ever experienced

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a danger that required them to leave the

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international space station ah that's

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okay that's an excellent question so

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that worries us um so far today we have

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never had to do that but we have come

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close

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as i mentioned those pieces of debris

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that we talked about for the movie

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we have flight controllers here that

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monitor all you've heard of space junk

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so things that are out there floating

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around that if they come in contact with

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the space station could puncture the

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whole of the space station and cause all

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the air to go out

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normally we know about these things way

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in advance and what we do is we use our

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reboost engines and we move the space

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station out of the way of the debris but

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sometimes there are items that we maybe

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didn't know we weren't able to track as

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well

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that come in with a late notice and the

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only thing we can do is tell the crew go

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into your soyuz or your crew return

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capsule

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shut the hatch and wait for us to tell

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you that it's all clear and we've had to

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do that what three times in the history

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thank you

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hi my name is kelsey barron and my

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question is what do you do while

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we say thank you um

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we uh we are always very busy in here so

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those when we're watching a mission and

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everything's going smoothly we're

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looking at you know what the crew is

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doing tomorrow what the crew is doing

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the next day uh we're talking about

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hardware failures that that we have been

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working on that we need to reach a

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resolution on in a couple of weeks

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so there are other things that we can do

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that if the crew doesn't need us right

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now but we're always monitoring the

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systems on board to make sure that the

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system is still

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operating nominally

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hello my name is gabriel and my question

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is what type of projects are you

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currently involved in

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so right now i was a flight director for

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eight years but for the last year i have

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been reassigned to a management position

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so i am looking at

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what mission control will look like in

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next year and five years from now as you

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know the space station has been

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authorized to operate till 2024 so my

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job is to make sure that i have all the

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right people in place to do that and

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that we have all the right equipment in

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here to be able to continue to support

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thank you

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my name is alyssa coleman and my

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question is what kind of science is

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conducted on the international space

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station oh wow what kind of science is

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not conducted on the international space

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station so

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now that we have it constructed we

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that's we're busy doing that every day

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we have a lot of human health science uh

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biology biology some earth science

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physics space science

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primarily we're studying we want to

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understand the effects of space on the

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human body so that if you know folks

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decide we want to go beyond low earth

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orbit that we understand what we need to

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protect the astronauts from

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and we're also testing out new systems

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that we would use on these long duration

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missions like if we were going to the

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mar to mars or to the moon

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that

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in-house right now we use the space

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station to test those out and we

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thank you

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hi my name is amber why is the

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international space station worth doing

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wow there are hundreds of different

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answers to this question

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i from my position i can see the

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benefits that our research has on

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on the general population let me give

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you an example you know my mom has

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osteoporosis what that means is you get

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a weakening of the of your bones as you

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age and they become more brittle

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in space we're able to conduct

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experiments because uh the the crew

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members lose

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calcium from their bones and their bones

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are also

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starting to weaken so we've been able to

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do some experiments on board that now

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are in you know can go through clinical

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trials and be given to people on the

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earth and maybe my mom you know or me

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before that happens to me

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i can benefit from that there's also

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some cancer research that we're doing on

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how to provide localized breast cancer

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treatment

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and i know a lot of people with breast

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cancer so for me it's the human health

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benefits

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working together with we work with 16

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different countries

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and

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you know while our politicians may not

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always get along we are a shiny example

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of how

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people from different backgrounds and

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different cultures can get along and

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work together to produce something as

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wonderful as the international space

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thank you

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hi my name is justin my question is do

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the sun's solar flares affect the people

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and vehicles in space if so how are they

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protected

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ah yes so we have a separate group of

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people that are watching for these solar

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flares and you know these are huge

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bursts of energy and sometimes um they

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can have as you've maybe have seen in

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the news and you know impacts on cell

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phone coverage they can have impacts on

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um you know different

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communications of uh between a satellite

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and the space station so we like to keep

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aware of those um so that it's not

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unexpected when it happens but we do

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have radiation shielding

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across a majority of the international

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space station that is able to protect

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hi my name is elizabeth and my question

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is when nasa returns to the moon what

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type of research will be done and how

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would we benefit it and when will nasa

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send astronauts to the moon again oh

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well you know i i would be happy for us

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to go to the moon as well

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currently right now we have no plans to

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do so so what we're doing is focusing

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our efforts on using the international

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space station to test out technologies

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and

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communication practices that we can use

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whenever the decision is made to go to

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hello my name is adam my question is are

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you aware of any changes in height due

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to

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ah excellent question yes so when you're

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on earth you with the benefits of

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gravity you your spine gets compressed

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and we have found that when the crew

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members get up in the space their spine

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elongates a little bit maybe

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up to an inch in some cases it's about

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an inch um so we actually plan for that

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because you know they do get fitted for

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their spacesuits and you wouldn't want

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to be you know fitted for a spacesuit

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and then you go up and all of a sudden

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now you're bonking your top of your head

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at your space helmet so we make sure we

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we allow for that uh that growth and

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then when they come back they can be

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tall for like the first day or so and it

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eventually settles out it actually makes

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your lower back kind of hurt a little

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bit sometimes because the way their

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spine is stretching so it's not exactly

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i mean i would love to be taller but you

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thank you

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hello my name is kevin and my question

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is what is the longest a human has lived

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in space aha the longest a human has

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lived in space it is about

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430 days we just looked this up before

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we came here so it was 430 days and it

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was uh one of the russian cosmonauts

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that flew on board the mir space station

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for the international space station we

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tried to limit the stay till about six

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months but there was one mission that i

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was actually the lead flight director

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for where michael lopez alegria

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had to stay for 201 days

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thank you

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hi my name is adam and my question is do

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you believe in extraterrestrial life and

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this is an interesting question

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you know

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maybe

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um surely as large as the universe is

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we're not the only ones but i don't have

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any direct evidence of any of that i

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don't know any secrets

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hi my name is carlos jimenez and my

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question is is there any plans for the

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planet mars in the next 20 years

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yeah right now nasa doesn't have any

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plans i've heard of some other plans

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outside of nasa of people looking at

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going to mars

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but again it's the same thing we're

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doing for the moon the international

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space station is a great test bed

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to be able to be ready with all of the

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appropriate systems and all the

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appropriate lessons learned

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if

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our

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the decision is made to go to mars

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hi my name is jorge and my question is

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what role would mission control play in

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a mission to mars ah okay

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so going to mars would be different with

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respect to communications right now we

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can call the crew

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at pretty much any time any day we have

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great communications coverage

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and that's because they are you know

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right above us

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but when you go to mars

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we won't always have a direct

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communication link to them so they need

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to be as autonomous as we can possibly

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make them and we need to be here to kind

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of support only for things that um are

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are operating out of

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the nominal plan or um

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or have failed in ways differently than

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we had anticipated because we will

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provide them with procedures to keep the

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systems running and then we'll provide

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them with another set of procedures in

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case this fails or that fails but there

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could be things that we didn't think of

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so we're looking at different

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communications

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links that we can have with them either

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by voice or a text message that they can

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send that might get the information back

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and forth quicker but ultimately we will

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be they'll be pretty much primary and we

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will be here to help guide them along

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i think that's it so we want to thank

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you guys very much for your time it's

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been fun i hope you guys have a good day