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okay let us start our press conference

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20 minutes ago there was the meeting of

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was reviewing the composition of the

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and preliminarily the composition of

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these crews

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was approved

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and the crews are currently preparing

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for their

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flight here and in baikonur so the

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composition of the prime crew is the

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maxim survive soyuz commander

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and soyuz flight engineer nasa united

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states and alexander girds

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soyuz flight engineer 2 and iss

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flight engineer to esa

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backup crew anton shkaplerov

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soyuz commander and iss flight engineer

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flight engineer and terry birds

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vehicle and of the iss

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ladies and gentlemen you're welcome to

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ask your questions

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avena it aired us news agency first of

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all i would like to congratulate you on

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your upcoming flight

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and soon you will your dream will come

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true and i would also

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like to congratulate you on the upcoming

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holidays

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and i have a traditional question for

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you what kind of musketeer going to have

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and besides that

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i also have another question yesterday

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you completed all your comprehensive

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examinations

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got your a plus

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because of your perfect understanding of

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each other and my question is what

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language are going to speak on board the

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iss thank you

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maxim here is the microphone it's right

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well answering your traditional

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question i can

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since reid

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has two little daughters

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one of the daughters gave his dad

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his daughters gave it to him to take the

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will be just need to show the bite maybe

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breed will add a couple of more words

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about it i don't know

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and answering the question about the

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language we are going to speak on board

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the station uh this is also very

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traditional during our training on board

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the iss

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we use the english language which is

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documented as the official language

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and in reality we are going to speak for

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english and mixture something

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in between russian and english of course

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you all understand that we're not native

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speakers of english and they're not

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natives because of russian and if they

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speak bad russian i will always be

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when i'm trying to use my bad english

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with my colleagues they will always

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understand me because they are native

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alex is upset at some point maybe i

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but we won't be able to understand the

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german language so he has

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in the country the name is

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it wants to sleep yes it's sleeping

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i have a question for maximus the

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could you please tell us more about the

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when they come back to earth and we will

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alex will join us during the third eva

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so the task of our eva is resupply

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so the main goal of the iss i would like

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to remind it to you is not to send

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astronauts there is not for the

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secondary the main objective of the iss

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that you're an expert and volcanoes are

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going to continue your research

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astronauts of the iss

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occupation so we all have different

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professions we all had them before for

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but of course we astronauts do research

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very beneficial for

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scientists on earth and for the people

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looking at the volcanoes and

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watching them that will be absolutely

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next question

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magazine

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to send the presence of those countries

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where astronauts are from to center

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for some time and then return them back

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yes thank you that is a great question

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thank you for this question

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political situation in the world

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but you're absolutely right the idea is

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great to gather all the presidents

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space flight but first of all to see the

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wonderful earth that we have but

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we can reach an agreement and we should

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be proud of what we have in the world

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i would like to hear the us astronauts

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answering that question no i think that

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anton answered everything perfectly

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good morning jose from the european

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congratulations to both crews i have two

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first one is how do you feel now

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actually that the proper training is

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over and it's going to launch and the

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if you just look at uh how we came here

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like what did what it well

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meant for us to to train that long i

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mean uh four and a half years ago i was

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selected into the core of the european

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team of isa and uh that's when i

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learned it's something new that i tried

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learned something new so yesterday was

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it's just one word that describes it

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failures that you that they possibly can

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throw at you so it's a very complex

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thing you have to take many decisions

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the whole day and our commander and reid

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did well i supported them as as good as

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um we landed safely we had nine and a

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half g's that we had to go through so it

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wasn't an easy landing

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if it was a real one but we succeeded

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950 kilograms can you imagine that for

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that it's a lot

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board so i can remember to look out the

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window because we'll be hard at work on

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get up there and then obviously once we

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i think it'll be really amazing to come

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through that hatch uh i'll probably be a

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little out of sorts uh floating for the

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first time but uh i know swanny will

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help us help us get through there and

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get on the press conference and uh just

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seeing those three up there uh when we

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last saw him a couple months ago here

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thank you next question

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channel

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literally i have questions forum for all

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of you guys how to combine your private

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life and your job as and

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as astronauts i think it's it's it's

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pretty difficult and how your wives or

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your girlfriend

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you begin

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so to me in principle when you when you

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train that

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that much in that heart for a mission in

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the end actually there's no difference

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anymore between private life and work

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life

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i think that's one of the biggest

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challenges to

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get apart after the mission again

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because i mean we train together we grew

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friends i mean we we spent like days in

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the forest at minus 20 celsius

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without a tent without a sleeping bag we

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had to survive and that i mean you grow

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together as a crew to be friends and so

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in the end you're you're

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yeah it's the same the private life and

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work life is in the way the same

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by private life i mean like your

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relationship with your partner or why

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well i i'm in the lucky situation that

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my my partner she was able to follow me

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to different training locations a lot so

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i saw her actually uh quite a bit and

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that made the things very easy for me so

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that is something that made my life much

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easier but i think i'll let these guys

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talk about it

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just real quick of course it's difficult

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we spend two and a half years training

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together and uh in that two and a half

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years i've been away from my family for

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nearly one year of it

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and but it's not all at one time it's a

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month in russia and then a week or two

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in germany or japan and then back to the

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us to see my family

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but it's hard on on me and it's hard on

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them i have two little kids and every

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time i come home you have to kind of

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reintegrate yourself into the family so

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from that perspective i'm missing out on

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uh on these two great little

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little people and uh and they're growing

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up and i get i miss part of that but at

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the same time uh i try to

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let them see what i'm doing and bring

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them into

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uh the mission a little bit and they

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enjoyed that so once they kind of

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understand what i'm doing

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then they they actually really really

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enjoy it and uh it's it's kind of been a

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fun adventure for them they've gotten to

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see some parts of the world that they

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otherwise wouldn't have and uh they're

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coming here tomorrow so i'm very excited

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to see

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how you do

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what was your daughter's reaction when

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they found out that you're going to the

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space

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they thought that i would leave

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they thought i would leave tomorrow and

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this was two and a half years ago so

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the full comprehension is not quite uh

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it's not quite there but now uh my older

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one is is eight and a half and she

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understands she's really excited about

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thank you

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next

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first of all

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i would like to

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yeah here it is

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i use

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every minute to spend it with my family

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if i have spare time i definitely spend

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it with my family we travel a lot we go

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to different countries

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on business trips and training

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and while you're away from your family

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you really start appreciating what you

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have at home you start appreciating your

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families

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and of course i try to be with them

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every spare minute i have

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but of course i cannot do it all the

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time

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because

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my

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job sends me

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somewhere far away but

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in general i have my second family here

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look at them look at these guys on the

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and for the next six months i'm going to

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be with my friends with my

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second family on board the iss so i can

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say we're all one big family

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because the tasks that we're going to

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perform and the objectives that we're

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going to

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achieve are very hard and you really

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have to feel that you have someone you

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can rely on when you're performing these

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tasks and objectives and you have to

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feel that

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these people are with you these people

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will be with me 24 hours a day so i

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so this is how it is

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next question

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i found out that anton

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got his phd degree

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and i want to ask you

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how did you manage to

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do that while you have such a tight

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maxim just mentioned it that

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a profession long ago in high school

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and we are studying all the time we are

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studying during our training sessions

421
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we're starting in the vehicle we're

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starting onboard the iss we are studying

423
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getting a phd degree was my old dream

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and i always postponed this dream

425
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because of my previous flight because of

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i decided just to find time to squeeze

427
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it in my tight schedule i know that i

428
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had very little time for that

429
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it's not necessary to be a cosmonaut to

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study

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to learn

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to

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learn something new every day

434
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we all need to study

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all the time

436
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that's

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maxim you've already mentioned it but

438
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it's really interesting you've already

439
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described

440
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the crew members that you're going to

441
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fly with could you please describe each

442
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other

443
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sense of humor what you appreciate most

444
00:20:02,070 --> 00:20:00,880
in each other

445
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i think that's very important for

446
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airspace flight

447
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i'm really afraid to say too many good

448
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things about them no don't be afraid of

449
00:20:09,590 --> 00:20:08,240
that

450
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because they're flying for the first

451
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time maybe there are some things that

452
00:20:14,950 --> 00:20:12,960
they need to know

453
00:20:25,990 --> 00:20:14,960
some words of encouragement that you

454
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i'm not lying i'm not flattering but i

455
00:20:32,070 --> 00:20:30,480
want to say that i'm very lucky with the

456
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crew members i'm going to fly to the

457
00:20:35,830 --> 00:20:34,240
station they are

458
00:20:39,430 --> 00:20:35,840
very good professionals they're very

459
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they're very responsible

460
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and they study a lot they know a lot

461
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they have very good

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life

463
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they're not very old but believe me

464
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in their 30s they know so much that it's

465
00:21:00,710 --> 00:20:59,520
really impressive

466
00:21:02,710 --> 00:21:00,720
reed is

467
00:21:06,789 --> 00:21:02,720
a military pilot

468
00:21:10,710 --> 00:21:08,470
that's very impressive i know how

469
00:21:13,110 --> 00:21:10,720
difficult his job is

470
00:21:15,830 --> 00:21:13,120
because i'm a pilot myself

471
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and i was participating in different

472
00:21:19,510 --> 00:21:17,679
military actions and i absolutely

473
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respect his job

474
00:21:26,950 --> 00:21:22,480
and our training has shown and our

475
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he has all the necessary qualities that

476
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you need to have in space i can say this

477
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same about alex

478
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he is a great guy he is a scientist

479
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and he was always there working on the

480
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simulator i can trust

481
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them to perform

482
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something some complicated tasks

483
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even tasks when you need to

484
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make

485
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a quick decision and i absolutely sure

486
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that i can rely on them and

487
00:22:02,310 --> 00:22:00,159
they're very responsible i'm proud of my

488
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crew

489
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and let's knock on wood

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i hope that our friendship will only

491
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become stronger with years after the

492
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thank you

493
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no no don't ask them to describe me

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because i

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i

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26th

497
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of course there will be a lot of people

498
00:23:03,190 --> 00:23:01,120
around me with whom i will be able to

499
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celebrate my birthday the people i know

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in four days after my birthday so yes i

501
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think we will

502
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so once again our job wants us to be

503
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there and to be absolutely ready for the

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flight

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and my birthday is secondary in this

506
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regard

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it's my job it's my duty

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at the same time i think i will be

509
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surrounded by the people i like the

510
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people i trust and my

511
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real friends i think that's a

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ladies and gentlemen

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i think

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there are so many

515
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questions

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already there and

517
00:24:18,470 --> 00:24:15,360
the languages of our press conference

518
00:24:20,870 --> 00:24:18,480
are the russian and english language and

519
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there are some questions in the german

520
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is

521
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foreign

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the question was if you have free choice

523
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would you

524
00:25:04,950 --> 00:25:02,149
to pick different people i would still

525
00:25:06,710 --> 00:25:04,960
pick the people i'm flying with in a

526
00:25:10,549 --> 00:25:06,720
couple of weeks

527
00:25:16,230 --> 00:25:13,990
thank you very much dear friends

528
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i think there is some time left to ask

529
00:25:21,190 --> 00:25:18,480
individual questions this completes our

530
00:25:22,310 --> 00:25:21,200
press conference and the crews

531
00:25:25,990 --> 00:25:22,320
will

532
00:25:30,070 --> 00:25:26,000
leave for the star city museum

533
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they will also see the exhibition there

534
00:25:33,269 --> 00:25:31,840
fiori gagarin

535
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after that they will go to the red

536
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square where they will be able to lay

537
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flowers

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according to our tradition

539
00:25:45,990 --> 00:25:43,039
after that the crews will

540
00:25:48,710 --> 00:25:46,000
rest on may 15th they will leave for

541
00:25:50,149 --> 00:25:48,720
baikonur and on the 28th

542
00:25:51,590 --> 00:25:50,159
they will launch for the station thank

543
00:25:54,149 --> 00:25:51,600
you very much for

544
00:25:56,950 --> 00:25:54,159
your questions and i would like to ask

545
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the crew to pose for photographers thank

546
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:21,190
like this yes

547
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and traditionally shake your hands yes

548
00:26:50,830 --> 00:26:30,310
thank you

549
00:26:50,840 --> 00:27:10,070
foreign pretty good

550
00:27:47,590 --> 00:27:25,590
okay

551
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i

552
00:28:49,679 --> 00:29:28,070
yep

553
00:29:28,080 --> 00:31:02,310
okay

554
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:14,630
oh

555
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:39,430
picture day

556
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:57,029
just one second

557
00:32:00,470 --> 00:31:58,630
here at red square and the kremlin

558
00:32:01,909 --> 00:32:00,480
preparing for your launch in just a few

559
00:32:03,350 --> 00:32:01,919
weeks from now talk about your

560
00:32:04,950 --> 00:32:03,360
experience here today and how you're

561
00:32:06,710 --> 00:32:04,960
feeling here on this historic occasion

562
00:32:08,789 --> 00:32:06,720
just a few weeks before your flight sure

563
00:32:11,269 --> 00:32:08,799
well it is a historic day here because

564
00:32:14,070 --> 00:32:11,279
tomorrow is a huge holiday in russia

565
00:32:18,070 --> 00:32:14,080
it's uh

566
00:32:21,350 --> 00:32:19,909
it's just very surreal to be here it's

567
00:32:22,630 --> 00:32:21,360
everything's closed off except for our

568
00:32:24,549 --> 00:32:22,640
little group so we kind of have the

569
00:32:26,070 --> 00:32:24,559
whole place to ourself and

570
00:32:28,389 --> 00:32:26,080
it just gives you a little time to

571
00:32:30,870 --> 00:32:28,399
reflect and think how amazing it is to

572
00:32:32,870 --> 00:32:30,880
be here to stand in red square uh in

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00:32:34,710 --> 00:32:32,880
russia right now preparing for launch

574
00:32:35,990 --> 00:32:34,720
it's just uh

575
00:32:37,590 --> 00:32:36,000
it's almost

576
00:32:39,430 --> 00:32:37,600
calming and relaxing it's just kind of

577
00:32:43,430 --> 00:32:39,440
nice actually how do you think you're

578
00:32:47,350 --> 00:32:44,870
that's a great question tomorrow my

579
00:32:49,750 --> 00:32:47,360
family gets here and we have got uh one

580
00:32:52,070 --> 00:32:49,760
week together just to relax be together

581
00:32:54,230 --> 00:32:52,080
as a family for the last time before

582
00:32:56,230 --> 00:32:54,240
lunch and so for me uh it's just gonna

583
00:32:58,950 --> 00:32:56,240
be family time percent

584
00:33:00,470 --> 00:32:58,960
how can your fans follow you on twitter

585
00:33:01,350 --> 00:33:00,480
or instagram and other kind of social

586
00:33:02,789 --> 00:33:01,360
media

587
00:33:05,350 --> 00:33:02,799
well follow me on twitter that's the