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a good morning everyone i'm pat ryan

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with the public affairs office here at

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the johnson space center in houston with

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me is megan levins she is one of the

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senior robotics instructors here and is

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currently getting certified to be a

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robotics officer to work here in the

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mission control room

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tell me real quickly about how you got

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interested in in that area of work

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well i've always been interested in the

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space program and who doesn't want to

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fly robots in space so it seemed like

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the right place to go

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i grew up in hawaii where we have very

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clear skies and you get a really nice

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view of those stars at night and it's

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inspiring nice nice we're ready to to

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find out what

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you guys

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hi my name is valeria and my question is

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how much training do you have to do to

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become a robotics engineer

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well to be a robotics engineer there's a

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lot of training you go through once you

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get out of college or university and

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come to nasa it's many years of training

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and you start off with writing

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procedures for crew members and learning

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all you can about your robotic system

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before you can come into mission control

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and and start moving the robots in space

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so it's a long process and there's lots

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hello my name is claire and my question

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is what controller would you call the

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brain of the mission control center

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the brain who's the brain

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that's a tough one a lot of people would

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say that that's the the flight director

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flight director is

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the person who's in charge of the whole

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team there's a team of

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10 20 people in here at a time all of

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them looking at just a specific system

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but they're all reporting to the flight

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director who has to keep track of what's

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going on on all of those systems all the

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time to make sure that the different

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components all work well with one

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but if you think it's not the flight

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director it's probably the people who

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hello my name is gabriel and my question

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is who is the most important person in

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the space station

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flight control room and why

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most important person would be the

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robotics officer wouldn't it always yeah

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well i have to say the most important

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person is probably the person that has

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the most going on at that time you never

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know what can happen on a space station

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so whoever's whether it's the robotic

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system or we have astronauts outside

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whoever has the most information and

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knows what's going on is probably the

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most important person

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hi my name is emma and my question is if

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a crew member gets hurt or sick and they

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need surgery is there always a doctor on

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there are it is not always an actual

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doctor on board but there is always one

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member of the crew who is trained as a

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medical officer in some cases you have a

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doctor or two

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doctors who may be on board at the time

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and so far we've been lucky enough that

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nobody has had to have surgery but all

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of the crew members get trained in not

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only first aid but also some more

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advanced things to take care of their

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crew mates just in case somebody does

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hi my name is jassidy and my question is

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do the team switch on and off so that

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they can get sleep if so how does it

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i think when the team switch over might

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be one of my favorite parts of the day

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we have about three teams that run in

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every day of the week all year round

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even on christmas

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so luckily they only have to work one

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shift a day and then the next shift will

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come on so we can all go home and get

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some rest

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so the day gets split up into into

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thirds really so any of the teams that

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are here are here for

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seven or eight hours in the room they

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come in and they find out from the

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person in front of them what's been

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going on then they take over and then at

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the end of the shift the next person

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comes in and you brief them about what's

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hello my name is gavin i would like to

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know how long is your shift

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well as a robotics officer my shifts are

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actually a little different than

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a lot of the other tumors like we said

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um when you're here all the time your

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shift is roughly seven hours and then

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you pass off to the next person for

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robotic shifts we can go from seven to

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12 hours depending on what kind of

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task we have for that day and then we're

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off for the rest of the day so ours may

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be a little longer but we have we're not

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hello my name is bella and i would like

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to know what is your favorite and least

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favorite part of working at mission

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okay that's a good question

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i have to say my favorite part is every

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time i get to talk to an astronaut in

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space there's nothing like talking to

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somebody who you know is orbiting

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miles and miles and miles above you and

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doing some robotic tasks or another

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activity and getting to talk to them and

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get their thoughts and what they have

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going on in their day and in your job

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you folks do get to talk to them while

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they're in the midst of these of moving

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flying these big robots around we do

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for robotics we do a lot of activities

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free flyer captures when new vehicles

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are coming up and then we also train for

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them as well so not only do i get to

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talk to them about the activity they're

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doing but also in all their training

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sessions as they get ready

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probably comes around two in the morning

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when you're still on console and ready

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to go home and it is way past your

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my favorite training exercise

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well you know here at jsc or johnson

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space center we have the neutral

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buoyancy lab and in the neutral buoyancy

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lab it's this huge pool with a almost

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exact replica of the whole space station

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at least parts of it and they have a

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robotic arm that is under water and can

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move around in this pool just like we do

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in space so my favorite training

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exercise is when we get to go there and

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put a crew member in their astronaut

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suit in the water and they're underwater

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and on the robotic arm doing activities

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and i can fly the arm around with them

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on it it's my favorite part of the day

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that's an example of what's going on in

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the neutral buoyancy laboratory it's

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what it looks like from one of the

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cameras that the divers have that

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they're floating around making sure that

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the astronauts are safe but also giving

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the the instructors a good close-up look

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at what the astronauts are doing so that

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they can get better information and help

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the astronauts become better prepared to

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hello my name is braden how and when did

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uh i've been interested in robotics and

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more specifically the space station

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since i was a little kid well in space

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since i was a little kid

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robotics has always been interesting you

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know i was always really excited for my

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math and my science classes and those

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and from there you go to college and you

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get to learn more about the robotics and

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you build things with you know like you

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guys with your lego robots and it was

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just really fun and i wanted to do that

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hello my name is ella my question is did

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anything in your childhood inspire you

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as a big fan of my lego set anytime you

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get to build robots with legos and then

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you get to do it on a much larger scale

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hello my name is alex can you give us

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any tips on what to study if we are

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interested in robotics

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i think you definitely should pay real

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close attention in your math and science

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everything builds from there so if

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you're you know paying attention and

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really studying up on there and then

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math and science there and it just keeps

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different areas of science that you

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found to be most helpful

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all the engineering stuff you know

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your hands all of that applies and worry

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know what you find most interesting

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about robotics and why

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robotics is you are working and moving

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something that is miles and miles above

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will never see in real life i only get

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all over a space station that's miles

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away from me without actually ever

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touching it and that arm is huge it is

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station is over 50 feet long i don't

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my name is evan and my question is

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mission control how many experiments

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have you supervised and finished with

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space station and specifically robotics

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is we help start so many experiments i

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mean we put the alpha magnetic

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spectrometer outside on part of the

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space station and it's still to this day

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looking at the cosmic rays and how the

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i don't know of any experiment that

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we've really completed as we just keep

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learning more and we keep going and we

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get to work with you know installing

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modules or free flyers like the

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dragon vehicle from spacex and the

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orbital vehicles and they bring more

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science experiments so the science just

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keeps going and we in robotics just help

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keep all these experiments coming

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another one of those dragon spacecraft

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that's supposed to be coming up to the

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station next week and your arm is is

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critical to getting it there we will be

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my name is eric and my question is what

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is the most challenging project you have

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these free flying vehicles and the first

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one that came was an htv from japanese

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space agency and it was something that

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had never been done before and not

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something we had were had ever

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really looked into and i got to help and

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be on the team that looked into doing

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this for the first time how are we going

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to train these crew members and what are

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we going to do and what does this

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operation really look like all from from

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scratch all the way until it actually

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was captured the first day in 2009 so

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it's really nice to be on something all

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the way from the beginning and get to

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imagine it and see it played out and

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it's it

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if you haven't done it it's hard to

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imagine because we're talking about the

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space station and another thing that are

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both moving at

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five miles a second and you have to get

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them relatively so that they they are

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still so that you can reach out with a

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giant robot and grab the other thing uh

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hi my name is julia and my question is

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by what year would a manned mission to

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possible go ahead you win

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oh gosh i don't know if i can put a year

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on that

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i think it will be sooner than we all

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think and i hope it's sooner than we

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think and it will definitely be in one

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of our lifetimes and who knows maybe you

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hello my name is eric reed and my

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question is

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on what planets have you sent the rover

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to

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mars and i think mars is the only planet

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we have sent rovers to we also had

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manned rovers during the apollo program

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on the moon but mars is our

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my name is martine and my question is

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well on the space station we have a few

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robotic arms the canadian space agency

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has two and there's the space station

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robotic manipulator which is the arm i

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work with the most and it's the one that

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helps with our when our astronauts are

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outside and with and we have these

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vehicles coming up and captures them out

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of the sky

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and then we also have the special

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purpose dexterous manipulator and he

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does even small tasks with payloads and

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and really fine you know tuning things

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and he works with different tools and

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then the japanese space agency also

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built a robot and they have two robots

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hi my name is madeline and my question

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is are there any robots that have a mind

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of their own or are they all programmed

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actually i've worked for a couple of

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robots that had a mind of their own

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if they have a mind of their own they

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haven't told me yet they're very

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secretive but most of them are

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programmed but they're programmed so

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well you would think they have a mind of

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hi my name is hannah and my question is

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how do you train for operations on the

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well when i'm training to work in

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mission control we do these

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we just do simulations and we do it with

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the whole team and it's really exciting

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because we'll

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you know pretend to do a

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put the astronauts outside and we'll

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have real crew members participating and

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we'll have look at all of our data and

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get everything just like it's the real

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day but it's a simulation and the whole

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team gets to work together and work

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through different scenarios that our

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training counterparts have come up with

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you know rescuing a crew member or

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you know

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any kind of failure you might have in

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your house is just magnified on the

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space station and we plan for it and

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train for it it's real exciting to get

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everybody together in a room and work

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my name is olivia and my question is

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well we use bunch of different

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instruments when we do training we have

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the virtual reality lab where our

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astronauts and and flight controllers

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can train where you actually put a

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helmet on like a virtual reality helmet

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and you can look out of this helmet and

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it looks just like you're on a space

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station and there we have a robotic arm

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that we can drive around just like we do

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and the crew member in their helmet can

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see it and we see it in our in our

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simulated camera views

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on the real day we get telemetry to a

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computer very similar to how you can

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download books on the internet and it

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just comes from space station so we can

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see everything that's going on up there

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and look at where where everything is

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the big thing is our cameras we use a

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i believe that's the um the last of the

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student questions we have

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all right real quickly this is michael

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here at nasa's digital learning network

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just wanted to see do you guys have any

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additional ones maybe that weren't

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written down initially that you

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thought about as we did our first

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portion or you actually connected with

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myself

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hi my name is isaac and i would like to

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ask what programming language do you use

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that is a great question

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and i'm not actually on the program team

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and i don't know the specific language

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as i mentioned the arm is built by the

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canadian space agency and they took care

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of all of that for us what we get to

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deal with a lot is more like what that

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looks like on our computer screens with

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the data that comes down and how it's

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i see some hands in the back

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um

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it's a combination actually there there

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is an official language that's english

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but right now for example you've got

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crew members who are from the united

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states and from russia and japan and of

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course they all speak their own native

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languages

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because they've been training together

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for a long time and working together to

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prepare for the flight and then fly it

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they've all learned a little bit of all

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the other languages and i've heard some

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crews say that they've really developed

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a language of their own they can always

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communicate with each other through some

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combination of english and russian

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we also have european astronauts who fly

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who bring a variety of their languages

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as well so

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when they talk to the ground when they

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talk to houston they're speaking in

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english but they could be speaking in

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other languages when they talk to other

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my name is savannah

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my question is

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did your parents support you through

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what you wanted to do

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my parents were very supportive with

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what i wanted to do and and encouraged

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me all through college and when i got

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the job here at nasa

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the space station is very exciting and

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my family was very excited when i chose

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this career path as well and supported

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hi my name is olivia i was wondering

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if you have a regular daily basis and if

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a daily schedule

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a regular daily schedule

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um

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we do and we don't

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when

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there is nothing going on

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robotically on the space station our day

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looks just like a normal work day where

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we come into the office and we we work

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on our plans when it gets really

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interesting is when we do have robotics

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plans and those plans will go in and you

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find out about those weeks in advance

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you can really prepare for them and

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that's when you'll come in and you come

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onto console and you'll set up your

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workstation so you can see all the

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telemetry and the data that you need for

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whatever task it is you're doing that

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day and review the operation that you'll

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be doing that day and then actually

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execute it and you'll go through your

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shift and execute your procedures or

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whatever plan it is that you have in

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order to complete the task that you're

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doing whether it's a free flyer capture

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or a science experiment

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or

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activities you'll go through and plan

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and then at the end you'll review your

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data make sure you have everything ready

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my name is aiden and my question is how

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long do you expect the international

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how long will it stay livable

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i think well it's

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the partners have recently made an

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agreement to extend the life for another

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10 years that's to 2024.

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uh i think that there's some thought

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among some people that with a with the

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right kind of work it might be able to

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fly for even longer than that but right

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now

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we're looking at the station flying

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hi my name is jenna and i was wondering

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what college you went to

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i went to the university of nevada in

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um when you're on the space station

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well the space station uses greenwich

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mean time which is a little different

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than houston time and can change

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periodically

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greenwich mean time is

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essentially the same as london because

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the

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to pick just one time to operate on so

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on board it's a greenwich mean time

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which right now is five hours ahead of

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hi i'm michael and do you think nasa has

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the technology and robots to search the

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it took longer for that question to come

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i think if nasa has the technology to do

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it they would be doing everything they

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can to try to find it

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and they are doing everything they can

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i know we do have we have been using

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some of the cameras on board the station

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to take pictures of the search areas

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hello my name is elissa and i was

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wondering if there is a problem with the

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connection

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how it

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if there was a problem with the

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connection to the people on the iss who

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well it would be a combination of our

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communications experts here on the

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ground as well as our astronauts on

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board you can believe if we've lost

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communication with our space station for

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any reason everybody is trying to

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recover it and they'll be looking on

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both sides both on the space station and

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here on the ground for what could

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hi my name is colby and

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why is the international space station

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why is it shaped the way it is

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a lot of it has to do it wasn't

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i don't think they started off thinking

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let's have a station that looks like

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this it looks like it does because the

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components are built to to serve a

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purpose

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it's got these giant solar array wings

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out there because they need them to

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generate electric electrical power that

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runs everything on it for example and so

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i mean if you were flying through the

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air that wouldn't be a good shape when

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you're flying in orbit the shape doesn't

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matter it's not not a question of being

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moving smoothly through the air because

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there is no air and all of the rest of

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the components of it too are built with

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that in mind that that along with the

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knowing that they had to be a certain

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shape in order to fit inside the space

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shuttle or or russian rockets in order

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to be launched

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we couldn't be

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much bigger than that in terms of the

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cylinders because they wouldn't have fit

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inside the shuttle in the first place

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and corpus christi catholic school this

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is nasa's johnson space center this is a

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digital learning network it looks like

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we've run out of time so i wanted to see

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if you want to say any final words maybe

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a teacher speak up and

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thank our very special guests in mission

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control for actually connecting for this

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on behalf of corpus christi catholic

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school we'd like um to thank you for

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taking the time out of your day to talk

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to our students i know they were looking

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very forward to this

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so thank you very much