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station this is dean emily allen of cal

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we hear you loud and clear

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hello my name is maria munguia i am a

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sophomore at cal state la in mechanical

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engineering my question is from mike

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becoming an astronaut is one of the

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greatest endeavors of our lifetime as

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well as one of the most challenging

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how did you overcome your greatest

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obstacle on the road to becoming an

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yeah that's a that's a very interesting

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you know i think one of the biggest

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obstacles is is being patient

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and it can take a lot of time to gain

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the right education the right experience

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to to even have a chance to become an

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astronaut i know for myself

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i applied four times before i was

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selected over the course of 12 years i

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think rick was probably very yeah over

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nine years same kind of scenario so it

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can take a long time and so you just

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uh hi my name is alberto lamia and i'm a

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um rick what first part you're

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interested in exploring outer space and

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how did it influence your academic

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i was always interested in space and

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interested when the teacher would talk

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about anything related to science

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especially space related or or airplanes

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heard what my interests were and they

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told me to go into engineering so that

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affected obviously what the choice of

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career i chose just based on my interest

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university of connecticut and got out of

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engineer and eventually applied as an

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astronaut so i think my interest in

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space and science and my abilities in

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mathematics had a direct

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my name is arnold alvarez i'm a junior

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the international space station plays a

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huge role in investigating many trends

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how do you think the future of our

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planet looks for us living under the

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yeah that's a really a good question and

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the earth has experienced a series of

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very drastic climate changes in history

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to understand and to keep monitoring

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precisely what's happening on the earth

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observe that namely the what's happening

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atmosphere and we have to work in

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like satellites so by monitoring

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precisely what's happening we will be

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my name is audrey perez i am a 10th

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mike what view from space made the

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hello my name is virginia mejia i am a

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senior in cal state la majoring in

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industrial technology rick as an

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astronaut you undergo difficult training

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to us and do you feel it has truly

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years and years of training just for

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vehicle systems and about payloads

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simulator that we train for of course i

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simulator we have space station

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laboratory which is just basically a

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large large swimming pool where we

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practice our space walks and we they

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it's like pieces of a puzzle and all

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these pieces are all jumbled up and you

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mission but the training works very very

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long time but it all comes together on

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the mission and that's why things that's

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why nasa is so successful because we

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hello my name is marcos gonzalez i'm a

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high school number five uh guichi do you

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have laws you have to follow on the

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space station and if so who is the

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governing body and what are the

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space station operation will be

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conducted and also we have a crew code

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of conduct that applies to all

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astronauts to follow

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individual astronaut flying in space uh

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the country the uh from from which the

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hello my name is raymond olivares i'm a

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civil engineering mike what advice would

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you give someone passionate about the

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wonders of space wants to become an

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work and that's probably the best advice

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my name is esmeralda navarro i'm an 11th

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grader at stern mass high school rick if

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you could choose between living in space

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earth but i would love i enjoy visiting

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space it's a great place to visit and

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space we've been living in space since

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spend their whole lives from birth to

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death well maybe someday but that's

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my name is sarah robison i'm a sophomore

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convection of marangoni which is caused

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fluid and we have to be very quiet for

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this experiment to be conducted so we

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door and something like that so some of

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engineering mike how does your knowledge

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of everyday life on earth affect the way

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antibiotics and we just did an

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rick what is your daily hygienic routine

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that's a personal question no i'm just

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kidding

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yeah the uh you know i i like to say

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that space is the place where the

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impossible is easy

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and the things that are used to be easy

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are now difficult so things like simply

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brushing your teeth and washing your

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face and shaving are much more difficult

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you know we don't have running water up

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here so basically we just fill up small

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bags of water i squirt some water on my

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face a little bit of shaving cream and i

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shave but there's no way to rinse the

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blade so basically i have to use up a

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whole blade every day

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and luckily nasa provides me a new blade

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every day so it's not much different but

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my name is luis carmona i am a senior at

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cal state la civil engineering

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koichi how do you and your family feel

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that's a good question

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as rick said space is a wonderful place

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to live and work but i do really

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miss my family and

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long duration space flight and also long

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training and we have training in not

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only in the states japan russia europe

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and canada so

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this experience puts some additional

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stress to the family but we have really

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wonderful family support team on the

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ground and the communication tools that

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we have

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video conference with our family

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usually on a weekend these communication

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tools are very huge

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psychological support for all of us

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hi oh hi my name is caitlin peralta and

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i am a 10th grader at college ready

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academy high school number five mike can

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you describe a time in space or during

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your training when you've had a close

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you know that's a that's a good question

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and i i would uh i guess i'm going to

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answer that by saying you know rick

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talked about all the training we do and

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a lot of that training is focused around

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safety

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and so

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what happens with that when you train so

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much or you focus on

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on keeping things safe that that a lot

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of times you may have a close call but

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you may not feel like it's a close call

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because your training kicks in

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and you react to the situation and uh

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and and get get through the problem

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whatever it may be

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so i've i've been very fortunate that

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you know from a close call perspective i

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don't recall really having any that are

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that bad of course you know we've had

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some problems outside the station and

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you know for example in december we had

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a a problem with the ammonia cooling

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system and so we had to go out and

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repair it but again the training kicked

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in and you've got this wonderful support

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team on on the ground that helps you out

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and everything went very smooth and

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hi my name is phoebe stillson and i am a

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senior at cal state la in mechanical

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engineering my question is for rick what

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one piece of technology would you most

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like to see improved on the space

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station

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in order to make your living conditions

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yeah we might say in a pizza oven might

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be a great one but

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you know we have a lot of good food up

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here obviously but uh in the variety i

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thought was pretty good but now i've

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been up here for three months and it's

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it seems to start to get a little bit

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repetitive so obviously a more uh a

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wider variety of food would also would

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definitely make life better but i think

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uh there's no one piece of technology i

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think it's just a question of of

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integrating everything and thinking

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about how the how we live up here a

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little bit more you know when we build

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these space stations we we uh have to

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solve a lot of problems to build these

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things and it costs a lot of money and

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sometimes the creature comforts don't

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get uh taken care of uh completely like

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i but let me say that we do live very

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comfortably up here but there's always

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room for improvement uh but

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uh i can't think of any one thing other

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than maybe a little better food and a

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little better uh hygienic preparation

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area

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hello my name is jeremy bellaire i'm a

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senior at cal state la in electrical

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engineering and my question is for cochi

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how does the space station deal with

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vibration

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yeah a good question

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as for the vibration

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some of the experiments for example like

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a fluid dynamics and also like a

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material processing type experiments

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requires high level of microgravity so

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we're in the u.s laboratory now but we

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have payload racks that have uh

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active or passive uh vibration isolation

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system to uh to minimize the vibration

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and also we do exercise a lot the

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running machine resistive exercise

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device those exercise devices also have

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vibration isolation system to minimize

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or to mitigate those vibrations that is

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unfavorable for experiments and as far

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as thermal conditioning

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we have active and thermal conditioning

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thermal control system throughout the

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space station and that gives us the

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comfortable temperature and the

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comfortable temperature for the for the

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computers and other equipment throughout

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the space station

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my name is ben galletta i am a sophomore

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at cal state la and majoring in computer

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science and my question is for mike mike

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is there any down time aboard the

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station and if so how do you use this

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yeah fortunately there there is uh some

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downtime we have pretty long days during

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the week we actually uh probably work

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about 12 hours during the day and then

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once things are done around 7 30 8

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o'clock at night

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you know it's time to catch up on emails

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and make some phone calls to the family

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and friends but we also take a lot of

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pictures the cupola is actually

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fantastic views of the earth and so you

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want to try and capture that and share

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as much of that as you can and then you

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know the other great thing about up here

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is we're floating and so it never gets

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old and it's always fun to try new

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hi my name is alex cabrera and i'm a

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senior at casterly

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my question is for rick now that he

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reached space and seen firsthand what

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billions of people will never experience

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yeah that's a good question this is my

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fourth mission so i've got to uh

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experience this many many times

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i think my next step is i'm going to get

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i want to get involved in some of the

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new vehicles nasa is designing a new

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vehicle called orion

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and we also have several commercial

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companies designing vehicles i'd like to

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get involved with some of these new

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vehicles to help design them and use my

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experience

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to to help make those vehicles maybe

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all right and that was our last question

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for today so we just want to say thank

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you so if everyone in the audience will