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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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fox business news this is mission

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control houston please call station for

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we are ready to speak with you

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we have you loud and clear fox

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i'm joined right now by nasa astronauts

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and expedition 39 flight engineers

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joining us right now from the

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international space station is rick

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masterskeik

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rick mastracchio and steve swanson

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gentlemen you are coming to us from the

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international space station welcome

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it's our pleasure thank you

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i guess i mean you're you're coming to

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us from the space station right now i

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i've got to just start the interview and

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tell us how it feels what does it feel

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of course yeah uh well we're not near a

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window right now i can't look out the

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window to see where we are over the

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earth but you're right we're coming from

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the international space station we're

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circling in the earth about 250 260

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miles above the earth traveling at five

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miles a second

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right now we're located in the u.s

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laboratory this is where we're doing a

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lot of research and development in this

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and how was the trip there can you give

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us a sense of what you've been

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the trip here was a little eventful for

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me it's supposed to be a six hour flight

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and a soyuz vehicle from taking off from

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kazakhstan um i had a little issue on it

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ended up being a two-day flight which

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wasn't bad just a little more time in

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the vehicle but since we've got here

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we've been having a great time doing

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and what kind of research are you doing

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well we've got all kinds of research

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going on up here you know some of the

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things that we've been doing is we had a

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cargo ship come up a couple of weeks ago

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and of course it brings up a whole

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series of experiments and that ship will

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then return with the samples and the

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results of those experiments so what we

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do up here is we're kind of the

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operators we work with the scientists

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and the engineers on the ground and

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we're the ones who execute their

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experiments uh for example right here at

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our feet we got some plants growing uh

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these plants are trying to see how the

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gravitation of the zero g the weightless

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affects the the roots which way they go

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uh we're also working on you know we

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have different kinds of antibiotics that

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they're looking at up here uh when we're

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up here in zero g our immune system is

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kind of suppressed so we can't fight uh

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the uh the bacteria the bugs as much as

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we can on the earth and the bacteria is

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actually very strong up here so

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we're basically doing research on new

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antibiotics trying to fight these

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superbugs of course which has direct

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gentlemen let me ask you about the

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future of space shuttle i mean given the

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space shuttle's retirement we know that

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the u.s pays russia what 71 million

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dollars a seat to fly astronauts to the

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your your current uh mission obviously

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uh has the both of you among uh that

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six-person crew but what should we be

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thinking about in terms of the future of

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that's a good question we're working

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hard on getting uh another vehicle

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from nasa to take us up here uh

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delivered around 2017. uh we're hoping

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it sure is we as astronauts would love

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to launch from the us we're looking

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forward to that day and uh we're hoping

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uh you know as long as we get the

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funding and the the things go smoothly

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we should be there in 2017.

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so so you don't worry about

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the the future given the relationship

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between the u.s and russia

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we we won't be having that funding from

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you know there's a couple couple of

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answers for that question you know first

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of all our relationship with russia you

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know we're we uh up here we don't have

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any politics you know we're all crew

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mates we have russian crew mates we have

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a japanese crewmate so we have the u.s

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crew crew members up here we get along

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great up here as far as the future goes

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i think the future is is pretty going to

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be a very interesting because we have

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both commercial companies building

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vehicles that are going to launch out of

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the united states we've got nasa nasa's

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orion program that's also going to

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launch a vehicle beyond low earth orbit

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so until those vehicles come online of

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course we are going to be relying on the

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russians and the soyuz vehicle to get up

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yeah i think that's a great point i mean

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you know we we've been reporting a lot

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on spacex of course elon musk

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he wants uh spacex to replace russia as

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nasa's space station transport

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what's your take on how this develops as

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we see more and more commercial business

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going into space of course we spoke with

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richard branson who's doing the same

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uh we think it's a wonderful thing i

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mean the more people and the more

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opportunity to get into space it's just

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it's great for our nation it's great for

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the the earth and we're looking forward

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i guess i was reading uh one story

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earlier which really was amazing that

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you've got a greenhouse there growing

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lettuce

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what kind of things do you have in that

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regard in terms of

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let me let me show you what we're

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talking about the international space

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station's vegetable production system uh

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could give you your first taste of space

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well we just installed it today and i

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just put i guess i'd say i planted the

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lettuce today it was it was a fun

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experiment and got it going hopefully in

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a few weeks we'll have lettuce growing

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unfortunately we're not going to get to

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eat it because we have to take it and do

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a science on it and measure all sorts of

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things about it and measure the

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microbial contents and all these things

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so it's not for us to eat yet however if

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there's any left over we might get a

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that is just terrific gentlemen thank

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you so much for joining us and for your

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uh courage and and hard work nasa

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astronauts rick mastracchio and steve

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swanson joining us there from the

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thank you

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the event thank you

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