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station this is houston are you ready

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houston station is ready for the event

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u.s air force academy and jack swaggart

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aerospace academy this is mission

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control houston please call station for

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station this is jack swaggart aerospace

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hello we hear you loud and clear welcome

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we have a difficulty with audio on our

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okay guys okay how do you hear me now

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good morning

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what do you miss most about earth and

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okay yeah well you know coming up here

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is of course a great adventure but

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there's always things the biggest thing

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you miss of course is your family and

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your friends and i would have to say

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probably after that i think food some of

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our favorite foods are the thing we

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next question okay uh thank you

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hello my name is karen arizo and my

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question is what type of food do you eat

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on the iss and how do you eat it if

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it's a good question

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our foods we eat are very similar to the

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foods you eat on the ground however our

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foods have to be prepared and packaged

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in a way that they can last for a long

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time before being eaten so they we do

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things like dehydrate them or irradiate

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and as it comes to eating food well

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eating food can actually be kind of fun

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yeah we have foods in many different

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forms you know and here's uh some some

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little some little candies that come in

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hello i'm luis rizzo and i have a

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how and how often are you able to shower

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leave for the space station and then we

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so we don't have a shower up here is the

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bottom line but what we do have is we

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have lots of towels and we uh of course

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some of these towels have a kind of soap

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built into them we wet these towels down

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quite a bit with hot water

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the these wet towels and you can clean

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yourself up pretty darn good we also

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rinseless shampoos you kind of lather up

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your hair and you wash it really well

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towel so we get ourselves pretty clean

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but there's no shower up here no running

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hi mr astronauts my name is paige

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courtwright and my question for you is

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how would you relate being in space to

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how would we relate being in space as

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being on earth well it's a very similar

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day in the sense that we get up in the

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morning we do the same things in the

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morning that you guys do you know you

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have some breakfast you brush your teeth

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all those the same things and we go off

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to work same idea except we have a very

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short commute to work we live right here

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in the same spot but then when we're

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different as you can tell everything

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floats here that makes everything very

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very different than on back on earth and

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hello astronauts my name is juan

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well you know in space there's lots of

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things you can do to have fun but the

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things that you know we enjoy the most

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are obviously floating around and being

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weightless this is a lot of fun and the

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the earth you know we have a cupola

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glass-bottom boat if you will it's got

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these six large windows and we go in

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earth and we take a lot of pictures of

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our hometowns we take pictures of places

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that we've never been and we'd like to

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go someday the caribbean we just passed

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over the caribbean a little while ago

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it's a beautiful place to see from up

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here so that's the thing that we enjoy

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um hello my name is brandon hernandez my

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question is when you're in space with no

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gravity for so long how do you feel when

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your arms are feel like they're just

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weighing so much your body your legs

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everything it's amazing

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effect on the uh we call it neural

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vestibular system so you have an inner

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ear and it helps you figure out where

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gravity is and helps you know what's up

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and what's down but we don't use that up

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here because we don't have that gravity

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effect and so it when it goes when you

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come back down and it has to use use it

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just a little bit until it reorients and

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each person but

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we're going to find out how that works

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hello mr astronauts my name is caleb

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bricks and my question is

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shuttle program has been retired we use

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the soyuz russian soyuz vehicle to come

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up to the space station and to return so

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three folks come up to the uh space

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station on a soyuz capsule but it's just

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like when you drive somewhere in your

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car the capsule is parked outside

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international space station and if

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there's an evacuation for some reason if

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there's a fire or a depressurization or

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somebody gets sick we the three of us

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of like it's our it's it's our rescue

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ship but it's also the same craft that

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hello mr astronauts my name is eric

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vinson and i have a question my question

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every day and we need to do this so we

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don't have muscle loss and bone loss

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when we get back to earth which is very

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doing it and it helps us one that helps

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shape and it helps our muscles and our

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hello mr astronaut my name is robert

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romero and i have a question how many

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sunsets every day so you can't look out

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middle of the night and look out the

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window and it could be daytime so what

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little uh our rooms and we sleep for

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eight hours then when we wake up we turn

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the space station that we know whether

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hello mr astronauts my name is jontel

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falcon and my question is how do you

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well how do we use math and space well

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luckily i only have to use simple math

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people who built and design and

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engineered this wonderful vehicle we're

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on use lots of math math is a means to

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an end you need math to be able to solve

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the problems of engineering and physics

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that's my name is jermaine wilson

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rick mr rick hello mr rick my name is

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jermaine wilson and my question is can

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traveling around the earth so fast at 17

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500 miles an hour so the earth is looks

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our training and all everything we

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learned in school but you really can't

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see the earth spinning because we're

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traveling so fast it's kind of like an

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fast airplane and you went by a very

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slow airplane it wouldn't look wouldn't

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couldn't tell if that small airplane was

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standing still or if it was moving but

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flying in the air so based on what you

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hello mr rick and mr steve my

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my name is angel martinez and my

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question is how do math and science work

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this is called spheres and the idea

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behind this is it's a little remote

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could not remote control but a software

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controlled uh piece of equipment or

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satellite and what it can do is you can

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have a software in there you load up and

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it will then control the satellite

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however you want to then the engineers

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algorithms and different ways of

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controlling these satellites and they've

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can then do it all together and try to

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get them to all together to do something

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experiment they have going and of course

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and science but you have to have math to

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actually solve the and get come up with

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hello mr rick since

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from diverse backgrounds what kinds of

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teammate team building activities have

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you done

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yeah that's right we have uh three

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russian cosmonauts up here we have steve

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and i from the united states and we got

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koichi wakata who's uh from japan he's

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actually the commander of the space

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station for these few weeks a few months

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uh obviously we trained a lot together

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on the ground as for international space

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station before you launch you train for

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about two and a half almost three years

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and of course we train with each other

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on a daily basis

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and we do lots of obviously simulations

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and spend a lot of time in the

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simulators together but we also did a uh

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basically we went to camping i guess it

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was outdoor leadership where we went

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outside and we spent a week out in the

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wilderness and we were

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basically out up in the washington

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washington state area san juan islands

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kayaking sea kayaking so we kind of

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learned to get to know each other we got

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to work with each other in kind of an

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off nominal or an extreme situation if

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you will camping and backpacking and

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canoeing out in the uh out in the ocean

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there so we spent a lot of time together

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training but we also do some of these

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side activities too just to get to know

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each other and then up here of course we

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live together we dinner together on a

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daily basis and we do a lot of science

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together we do a lot of repair work

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together so we get to know each other

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quite well and we don't really think of

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each other as coming from different

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countries we just think of each other as

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our crewmates you know koichi's our

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crewmate uh our russian crewmates down

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the other end they're just our crewmates

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we don't think of them as from coming

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from other countries they're just our

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hello mr steve

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my question is what is the difference

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between a mission commander flight

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well that's a good question

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mission specialist was a term back used

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in the shuttle and that's similar to a

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flight engineer these days uh there's

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not much difference when we on a working

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daily basis between what the commander

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does and what a flight engineer does on

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the space station we still do the same

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amount of work we do the science we do

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the repair of the station we all keep it

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running what a commander though does or

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what it has to do is he works a lot with

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the ground to make sure everything in

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the big picture is working well he also

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has a responsibility of making sure

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we're all ready for any emerging cases

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and then getting us through the

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emergency case

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and those tasks along with just making

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sure everybody gets along and all things

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are running smoothly is mainly the

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hello mr rick my name is arjuni gray

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what does this what does the station

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satellite have a control console or a

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cockpit like the side of like the space

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yeah that's a good question because you

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wonder who's controlling the space

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station well obviously the ground folks

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have a lot of control on what's going on

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onboard the space station but our

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interface with the space station is all

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done with laptop computers there is no

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cockpit if you will there's no control

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station it's uh it's simply laptop

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computers we have dozens and dozens and

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dozens of laptop computers and of course

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these have very specialized software

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some of them have software that where we

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could send commands to the systems of

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the space station to open valves and

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close valves some of them we use to look

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at our schedule like what's the next

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task i have some of them we use to read

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our procedure some of them we used to

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read our email so all these different

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computers have different uh different

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purposes and and it in it's really now a

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control

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cockpit like an airplane it's simply all

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these laptop computers

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hi sir i'm ctc sarah foles um and i have

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a question coming from del rio middle

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school what would happen to a sponge or

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that's a good question so we brought

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some stuff to just to try to figure that

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yeah so steve's got a this is a drinking

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bag it's basically filled with water

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you can see you know we obviously we

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can't drink out of a cup so we got to

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keep it in a bag and steve's going to

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just squirt the water in this and then

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here's a simple washcloth

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and you know up here without gravity you

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can squirt a lot of water into a

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and then of course without gravity when

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you got to squeeze the washcloth it's

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basically well we'll see what's going to

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station this is houston acr it sounds

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yeah and if you shake your obviously the

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water is not going anywhere if you

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squeeze your hand but if you uh shake

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your hand obviously the water will

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hi i'm ctc catherine lowry and i have a

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question from lincoln k-8 choice school

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what happens when you run low on food

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okay that was a good question yeah if

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you obviously if you low run you run low

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on food well obviously you got to start

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eating a little bit less but we have a

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series of cargo ships that come up here

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on a regular basis we have the russian

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cargo ship we have a couple of

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commercial cargo ships that come up here

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in fact we just got one it's parked

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behind us nader uh what about three or

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four days ago it came up and we docked

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and it brought us a lots of food and

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lots of science equipment

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but you know the folks on the ground

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think far far ahead and they make sure

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that we have enough food for many many

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months if not years so it's really

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unlikely that a crew is going to run low

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on food you may run out of your favorite

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food once in a while but we sell them

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sir i'm ctc noah black and i have a

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question coming from

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lincoln k school can you see other

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planets from the space station do they

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look any different when you're in space

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yes i mean you can see like venus and

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saturn and the same thing as you can see

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in the earth sky we see the same thing

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it might look just a little bit clearer

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because we're not going through the

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atmosphere but they're pretty much the

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same size and that kind of same relative

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thank you sir

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rick and steve we thank you very much

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for giving us this opportunity to speak

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we thank you very much