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station this is mike williams at school

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mike in school of the osage i hear you

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loud and clear

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we will go ahead and start in with our

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yeah mike it's great to hear your voice

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and i'm very happy that we've got the

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opportunity to do this i was getting a

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little worried because i've only got

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less than two weeks left up here so i'm

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very happy to speak to uh to everybody

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colonel hopkins my name is devin

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scrivner i believe the administration at

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school the osage chose my question based

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on academic merit alone

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the question is as follows do you ever

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feel like superman pushing off the walls

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well i don't know if i if i could say

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superman but certainly flying around the

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space station is is absolutely fantastic

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it's one of my my favorite things but in

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terms of the strength and all that you

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get put down to earth pretty quick as

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soon as we get on our weight machine up

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here and try and lift some weights

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hello there my name is michael minahan i

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have a question for you rick what is the

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most amazing thing you have seen in

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that is a perfect question for for today

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because last night

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mike and i were in the node three this

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is where we wash up we were brushing our

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teeth getting ready to go to bed and we

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were about to close the windows on the

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cupola and we looked out and we could

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see the southern lights we were on the

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southern tip of africa i believe and

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it's starting to turn and head north and

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we could see south of us all these great

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aurora the southern lights aurora

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australia's and it was just an

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incredible light show and then we could

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see a little bit of the sun as the sun

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began to rise we could see this blue

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line we could see this green haze we

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could see these red lines shooting off

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the off the planet and then we could see

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the star or the planet venus rising

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through all of it and then

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through and it was an incredible show

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and that's something i don't think

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hi my name is james coats and i'd like

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to know how you handle interpersonal

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yeah you know that's that's absolutely

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fantastic question because

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communication is is the way you handle

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those and and that can be difficult

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to be able to communicate amongst us up

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here but but probably even more

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importantly is how we communicate with

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the ground and so you need to make sure

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you keep those lines of communication

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open and sometimes that can be difficult

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for the most part over the space to

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hello i'm amy extreme and i would like

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to know um how messed up have your

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sleeping patterns gotten while you're in

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standard 24-hour day even though we're

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follow a pretty standard day that we

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that everybody or most folks follow back

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on on earth uh we we're up uh we work uh

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12-hour days we get a couple hours of

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free time to eat dinner and relax and

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hours of sleep time of course we don't

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need to sleep that much but at night

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space station and we crawl into our

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small crew quarters and go to sleep no

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problem it's very very comfortable

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sleeping up here

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i'm david warmuth uh mike who do you

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give thanks to for helping you reach

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well first and foremost is god and then

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i'd have to say my parents and and then

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my wife and kids and certainly without

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any of those i wouldn't be here

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today and and i i do want to give a

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special thanks to to my wife and kids

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they've certainly borne a lot of the

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brunt of the time away and all of that

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during the training and then of course

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while i'm up here as well so that's i

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guess that's who i would give thanks to

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hi my name is ashlynn doyle um what does

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it feel like knowing you're up there

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above earth and life is continuing down

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yeah that's interesting there's a lot of

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different ways i can answer that

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question of course uh you know i'm

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missing a lot of things back at home we

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were up here for the holidays for

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thanksgiving and for christmas

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uh and those are the kind of things that

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families getting together and your

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friends and family are getting together

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missing something and so that makes it

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hard to be up here but the you know the

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trade-off is we get to do this fantastic

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work up here we get to live in this

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incredible environment and we get to get

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see the beautiful things we see out the

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window so you know it's a trade-off like

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everything else it's a trade-off but i

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think i think we got the better end of

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the deal

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hello my name is jessica smith my

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question for you is what does it take to

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to to be an astronaut one it takes a

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little bit of luck

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perseverance and hard work and uh you

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selected i think rick was was the same

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so you can't get discouraged you got to

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be patient and you got to work hard in

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school and and whatever job that you do

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part about that job whatever you go into

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you're passionate about

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chance to be an astronaut that'll all

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hi i'm in j robinette and

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is it hard to swallow food up there

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it than it is down on earth and so very

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fortunate that way

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hi i'm nicole and i was wondering if you

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uh cute food oh space food do we get

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tired of space food

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space food you know here's uh we got

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barbecued beef brisket we got tortillas

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different types of food we got all

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different types of drink here's a drink

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is our favorite foods you know it would

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great pizza or a good steak dinner or

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hi my name is michaela and i was

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wondering what does the sunrise look

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we go around the earth 16 times a day so

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of the earth is you'll you'll it'll be

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hi i'm savannah i was wondering what

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our daily routine up here is probably

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you have a job you know we get up in the

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schedule's on board we'll be working

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ground folks to discuss any issues that

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hi i'm emily and i would like to know

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what your favorite part about being in

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uh you know that's pretty easy for me

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absolutely love floating around it's

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something that never gets old

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you enjoy it

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allows you to do things that obviously

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an experiment or something like that you

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can put yourself in a position or an

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orientation that fits whatever job

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you'll be standing on the ceiling upside

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down that but really there's no upside

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he likes hanging from the ceiling

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hi my name is abby what is the funniest

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more difficult sometimes because they're

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so far away but i think uh you know the

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camaraderie that we share up here is you

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know living up here in this small close

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quarters for about four months almost

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five months together so i think we have

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a good time and we kind of laugh

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every once in a while the ground will

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send us up a tv show and so we'll have a

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good laugh with that also

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hi my name is audrey carson and i wanted

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to know when you decided to become an

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yeah that's easy actually i decided or i

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wanted to be an astronaut when i was

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sitting in the seat you guys are in

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right now

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so back in high school that was the

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early days of the space shuttle program

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and uh watching you know six seven

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launches of the space shuttle every year

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and and seeing the astronauts working in

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the shuttle and outside the shuttle i

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just it looked like something that would

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be absolutely fantastic to do and uh and

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it is

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hi my name is emily um what is your most

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my most embarrassing moment in space uh

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oh like i don't know that's a tough

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question you know i guess you know it's

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always embarrassing when you're working

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with the ground

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and if you uh you know you make a

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mistake or an obvious mistake it's not

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uncommon for me to be reading a

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procedure and i'll call the ground and

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say hey you know houston what does this

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mean or what does that mean and they'll

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say well look at the figure in the next

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line i'll say oh okay yeah that makes

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sense and so sometimes uh you know

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you don't read a procedure properly or

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carefully and the ground has to remind

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you that it's it's written right in the

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procedure but uh

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little things like that are you know or

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nothing to be ashamed of or nothing to

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worry about because you can't be too

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proud up here you got to be you got to

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got to realize that you're human you're

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going to make mistakes just because

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you're up in space doesn't make you any

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any more different than all the folks on

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the ground and we make mistakes on a

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thanks

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hello colonel hopkins my name is taylor

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bales and i was wondering how this has

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you know i think

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or hopefully it hasn't changed my

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personal life too much at all i mean

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this is an absolutely incredible

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experience it's something i'll never

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forget uh but at the in the end uh we're

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all the same people we were um you know

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when we're on the ground and and so um

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you know overall i think we just have to

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try and keep it in perspective and and

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realize we've been given an incredible

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opportunity and a gift and a blessing to

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be here and appreciate that and and

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share it with as many people as we can

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but uh really i hope i hope it hasn't

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changed changed me that much

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hello there my name is kelly zorick and

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my question is if you had the chance

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would you bring someone in space with

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oh yes there are a lot of people i would

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bring into space with me uh you know i

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know i'm pretty sure my wife would not

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come but i know some of my kids my kids

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would probably love to come with me and

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i know there's probably a lot of folks

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down in houston in hudsville and all

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around the world who work

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on the space program for various

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countries and various organizations who

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would love to be up here

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and uh you know we we do our best to try

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to bring them with us in some ways we

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bring pictures of folks we bring

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pictures of friends and families we

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bring pictures of the folks who work

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down in the mission control centers and

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who work as engineers around the

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different centers and we try to bring

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some trinkets up with us and share as

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much as we can with the folks on the

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ground so there's a lot of folks who

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want to be up here and hopefully in the

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future years hopefully 5 10 15 20 years

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from now space will be open to a lot

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more people and i think it is going to

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be

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hi my name's austin and i was wondering

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if you've ever worried about what could

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uh you know not not really i guess uh

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you know we do a lot of training it

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takes two and a half years of training

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once you're assigned to a mission and

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that doesn't include the the two years

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of initial astronaut training that you

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go through

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and and a lot of that training deals

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with safety and how to handle things

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when they go wrong

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and and so i would say uh most the time

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you you don't really think that much or

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you don't dwell on on the things that

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could go wrong and and then you

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typically if something does go wrong you

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all you tend to just focus on the

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procedure and what the next step is and

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really your training kicks in at that

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point

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and osage are you still with us

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hi my name's zach perkins and uh i was

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just wondering if you guys would be

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quarantined when you were turned to

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yeah we don't do quarantine like in the

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old uh when they went to the moon the

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apollo missions that went to the moon

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and landed on the moon when those guys

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came back i remember when i was a little

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kid watching and they would be

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quarantined for several days or a week

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or so i don't know the exact number but

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no we're not quarantined but uh when we

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land we'll land in kazakhstan and over

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near russia and they'll fly us uh nasa

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will fly us on an airplane back to

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houston overnight so we'll get back to

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houston about 24 hours after landing and

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from there we will get to spend a few

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minutes with our say hello to our

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families but then we do go to a special

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crew quarters for observation for about

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overnight for about 24 hours or so and

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it's not so much as a quarantine it's

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more of us just they can keep an eye on

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us and then we also go through a lot of

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medical testing a lot of

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data and research is is dependent on

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them getting blood samples and testing

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us in various ways so we do have a bit

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of a commitment after we land to the

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science that's involved in all of this

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into the scientists and the medical

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folks

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hi my name is ian schoenberg i was

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wondering if you guys exercise more on

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yeah absolutely uh we exercise as rick

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was saying earlier two to two and a half

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hours a day at least

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and uh but the one thing i would say

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that we don't get even as you guys are

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walking around on on the ground under

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that 1g environment you're you're

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getting some exercise and so even though

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we exercise probably more than i do on

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the ground i think overall um you know

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we don't we don't challenge our bodies

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as much as we do on earth just because

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we don't have that that walking around

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and and all of that that you're

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experiencing right now

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hi i'm gabriel uh what is space madness

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uh space madness that sounds like when

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when mike eats the last tortilla that

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gets us all pretty mad up here but i've

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never heard the term space madness

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so i'm not sure what that exactly means

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i could guess i guess something maybe

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comes from a movie or something but you

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know i don't know if i've ever seen

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space madness up here i have seen

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frustration you know frustration is a

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not uncommon up here uh when we're

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dealing with a lot of different pieces

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of hardware and we're communicating with

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folks on the ground sometimes we get

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frustrated because things don't work the

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way we expect them to work or sometimes

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we just get tired or sometimes

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communication with the ground is just

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not working clearly so you know there's

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a certain amount of that going on but

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i've yet to see any space madness

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hi my name is brock henry and what

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position did you play in football and

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yeah there's there's a lot of memories

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from playing football both at osage at

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the university of illinois matt osage i

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played both quarterback and linebacker

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and actually when i was freshman

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sophomore i was playing a little bit at

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wide out as well and at defensive back

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college i by my first year at illinois

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as a walk-on i was i was on the scout

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team offense as a quarterback and then i

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moved into the defensive backfield

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and that's where i spent the the last

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four years and there i played all the

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positions corner strong safety free

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safety

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um boy the most memorable moment

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there's there's a lot of them

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certainly when we beat colorado the year

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they won the championship up at illinois

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that was

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never losing to ohio state sorry for any

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ohio state fans out there that was also

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very memorable and but overall just

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every chance you got to run out on the

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field

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and play the game was is just something

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i'll always cherish

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hi my name is hannah and my question was

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well actually uh sleeping up here is

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very very comfortable we just have a

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sleeping bag we don't have a bed we just

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hang our sleeping bag we have a very

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small crew quarters it's the size of a

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very small closet like like a linen

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closet

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if you know what those are and it's so

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it's very small you just hang your

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sleeping bag up on the wall and you

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simply crawl in there and go to sleep

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and your kind of your arms kind of float

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out like this

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and it's very comfortable and it's kind

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of weird because as i'm sleeping

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sometimes i'll sleep and i'll wake up

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and i'll feel like i'm laying down and

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then if i open my eyes and my brain

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readjusts i'll feel like i'm standing up

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and so it's your brain can kind of make

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all these different uh

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interpret interpretations of whether

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you're laying down or standing up but

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it's uh sleeping up here is actually

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very very comfortable and i think my

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concern is when i get back home and i

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have to sleep in a 1g environment i'm

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probably going to have some problems

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getting used to it again

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hi my name is dalton glenny uh how much

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yeah so we don't weigh we don't weigh

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anything up here we still have mass and

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so we'll actually measure our mass and

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we can equate that to what we would

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weigh down on earth under a 1g

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environment um and so actually up here

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i've lost a little bit of weight i've

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probably lost five to five to ten pounds

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and so it's about about 180 right now

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gentlemen we really appreciate you

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taking the time out of your busy

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schedules and having this conversation

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with school of the osage we are so very

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proud of you

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mike hopkins and

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being a part of our memories here at

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school of the osage and what an

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inspiration you have been to all of our

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well mike good

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well i just want to say uh thanks to to

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everybody there at school the osage it's

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i'm i'm absolutely so proud to be an

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alumni of school of the osage and and

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i'm just

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i want to say thank you as well to to

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all of the teachers and everybody there

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because for all you kids all your

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students there

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you are getting a great start in life

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take advantage of it follow your dreams

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and

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it's it's just a wonderful experience a

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wonderful place to grow up

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the event thank you

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thank you school of the osage station we