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university of connecticut this is

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mission control houston please call

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station for a voice check station this

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is the university of connecticut how do

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university of connecticut the

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international space station hears you

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we have a professor here at uconn whose

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discovery are there any crops grown in

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cargo vehicle launching here and maybe

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today or tomorrow and it's uh promises

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earth the way that we see it from uh so

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what made you choose electrical

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electrical engineering and computer

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science as my major uh back then you

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computer science aspect of it and of

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yukon student that wants to follow the

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is space anything like what science

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i'm sorry can you repeat the question

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is space anything like what science

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is space anything like science fiction

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station this is houston acr that

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a voice check from rensselaer

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station this is rensselaer polytechnic

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rpi i hear you loud and clear welcome to

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hi rick this is alex angelella

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what has been the most surprising result

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there any specific methods you use

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during spacewalks to minimize radiation

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exposure and how do you factor in

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mitigate it but the ground folks do the

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ground folks look at our trajectory they

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look at how much time we're going to

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spend out there on the space walk uh

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they look at our total radiation

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exposure during our our whole lifetime

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our career as an astronaut they look at

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all those factors and they determine

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what the best time is for us to go

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outside when's the uh who does the

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spacewalks for example who even gets

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assigned to the missions if you have too

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much radiation exposure in your career

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you may not be able to do long duration

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missions for example so the the docs on

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the flight doctors on the ground they

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keep track of all that stuff and they

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make sure that we stay below their you

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hey rick my name is ryan uh can you

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compare launching in the soyuz rocket

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yeah that's a great question

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yeah let's see i launched in the space

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shuttle see three space shuttle launches

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in the uh one soyuz launch now the space

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shuttle is an incredible vehicle it's it

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just it just hops off the launch pad and

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it basically is

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is moving very accelerates very quickly

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off the launch pad immediately and it's

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uh first stage is very bumpy you know i

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kind of uh the analogy i used in first

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stage of the space shuttle was kind of

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like if you rode a motorcycle down a

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train track that's how much bumpy and

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how bumpy it is and then when you get at

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the second stage of the space shuttle

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it's very very smooth you can't even

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feel the engines the rumble of the

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engines or the vibration very very

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the soyuz is quite a bit different the

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soyuz doesn't hop off the launch pad as

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fast it doesn't accelerate off the

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launch pad as quickly as the space

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shuttle it's a little bit smoother than

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first stage but the thing that was

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really interesting in the the soyuz

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launch was when the staging of the

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rockets i think it was second and third

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stage the second stage shuts out you

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kind of get thrown out of your seat and

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then the third stage lights and you kind

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of get thrown back of course you're

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strapped in very very tightly so you're

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not really getting thrown around but you

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could feel that that that that bump if

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you will and that was that was kind of a

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lot of fun so they're quite a bit

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different those vehicles but uh both of

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them worked fantastic and

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i would write either one of them again

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the rensselaer polytechnic

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institute portion of the event please

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stand by for a voice check from the

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station this is university of houston

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clear lake how do you hear me

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university of houston clear lake i hear

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you loud and clear welcome to the space

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thank you

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this is uh this is aaron hirage physics

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engineering major

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and my question is what experience at

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university of houston clear lake has

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helped you most in your activities up

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yeah that's a great question you know

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when i first got to when i first moved

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to houston i was working as an engineer

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at the johnson space center and i

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decided i want to continue my education

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of course university of houston clear

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lake is a is a great place to go it's

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it's a great campus has lots of

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opportunities and different programs and

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of course very very convenient located

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right next to the johnson space center

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so i can't say that there's any specific

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experience that i got at the university

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of houston clear lake but i can't say

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that you know going there meeting the

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folks having that experience just in

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general of attending the school there

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and getting the degree of course getting

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that master's degree had a lot to do

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matthew smith finance here

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what would you say are the differences

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in preparing yourself for

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long-term weightlessness on the iss

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versus short term on the space shuttle

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uh yeah let's see

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long term versus short term

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i really didn't prepare any differently

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for short term missions basically you

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spend a lot of time at the gym before i

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launch you know from a physical

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perspective i spent a lot of time at the

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gym for my shuttle missions as well as

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my space station missions i tried to be

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as good a shape as i could before launch

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and now the big difference is once you

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get up here for space shuttle missions i

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really didn't exercise while i was up

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here i was up here for only two weeks

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did a lot of spacewalks so i thought

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that was enough exercise for me but now

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on a long duration mission i really

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spend a lot of time every day i work out

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for about two hours a day running biking

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lifting weights on a resistive exercise

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device so pre-launch not so much

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different in terms of physical

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preparation but during the mission

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that's when it's really quite a bit

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hi my name is ingley and uh my question

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is um have you have ever any chat excuse

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me

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have you have any challenge working with

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other astronauts

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yeah we have a lot of different

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astronauts from a lot of different

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countries right up here for now for

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example now we have three uh russian

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cosmonauts we have two american

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astronauts and our commander is a

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japanese astronaut of course we have

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european astronauts canadian astronauts

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we have folks from all over the world

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which is great but you know we don't see

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each other as people from different

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countries we see each other just as as

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crewmates i don't think of koichi wakata

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the japanese astronaut or my russian

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crewmates i don't think of them as

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russians or as japanese i think of them

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as just my crewmates so on on a personal

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basis we get along fantastically and on

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a professional basis also so

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again those kind of those those

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those borders or those boundaries

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between or differences between people

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and differences in between countries

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they go away when you get up here and

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just work on a day-to-day basis with

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hi rick i'm susan mcintyre psychology

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major and my daughter and i wanted to

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know if weightlessness had an effect on

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yeah thanks susan um yeah it does i

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think it does so you know i think it's

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not just the weightlessness of course

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the weightlessness causes your body to

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change when you first get up here a lot

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of the blood you have too much blood

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basically too much fluid in your system

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and your head gets kind of puffy you

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feel kind of warm you have maybe a

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little bit of a headache it takes a

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little while for your body to adjust

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maybe get rid of some of that fluid and

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there's a lot of other changes your

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body's going through so it takes time it

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actually takes months maybe actually to

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fully adjust to weightlessness but then

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there's also environmental factors you

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know the co2 level up here is higher

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than what we're used to on earth

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the noise factor the close quarters

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things like that there's a lot of

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different things that affect your mood

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but it's uh overall most of that is

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overcome by the fantastic views we have

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out the earth and the fact that we could

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float around and we do a lot of exciting

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work up here so it's actually a pretty

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hi this is marvin childress college of

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education

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i was wondering what actions can we take

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as citizens to help advocate for the

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international space station research

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as well as other space exploration

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yeah that's a good question of course

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we're always looking for the folks to

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support us you know nasa has lots of

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outreach programs to try to educate the

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general public about what we do up here

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and try to get folks excited try to get

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youngsters excited about math science

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and technologies to promote the sciences

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and get kids into the to study these

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things

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i think the average person of course can

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show their support for nasa in a lot of

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different ways probably the uh you know

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if it depends on how far you want to go

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of course uh talking to your uh your

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elected officials those are the folks

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who make the decisions on how much money

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nasa gets those are the folks who make

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the decisions and

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the things that we do up here what

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programs survive what programs get

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canceled things like that so i think

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talking to the elected officials is the

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best way to show your support for nasa

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station this is houston acr thank you