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that's an amazing feeling and then we

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gave a good high five

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this is your rocket

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are you excited

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can you possibly look at that and not be

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one veteran two first-time flyers for

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this crew how prepared are they and how

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complex will this mission be absolutely

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rob it's uh it's been great to actually

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see how well reid alex and max arrive

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are prepared for this mission i've spent

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the last couple of days in the cosmonaut

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hotel and they're just uh their

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preparations have just been excellent i

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everybody looks at a crew that's got a

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couple of rookies and considers are they

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ready but they're ready for the complex

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mission that we have out in front of

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them they're ready to join swanny and

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the rest of the cosmonauts on board

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space station and get started with

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it's got everything you want and more

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right order to make sure you're prepared

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for everything when the when the right

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time comes but i know this crew is up to

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it and we're really looking forward to

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watching them work

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we're just two weeks removed from a

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soyuz landing and here we are back in

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kazakhstan soyuz vehicle behind you

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poised for launch

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as you as you look ahead

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a trilateral mission

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critical mission to the international

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space station what are your thoughts as

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you stand on this historic launch pad

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that yuri gagarin launched from over a

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we are in a busy time period um

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for the space station right now 37s you

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weeks ago spacex just landed

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in the in pacific we got all the

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commercial cargo back back into the

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principal investigator's hands which was

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great and now we're here we're ready to

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go from a crew size of three to get back

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dan how do you in your own mind view uh

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station we're constantly learning new

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the exploration program and so it's just

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bit of everything that lies ahead over

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the next six months how complex will

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this be and how critical is the mission

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campaign mode so looking forward to it

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accomplishment for the partnership to

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support and ready to get ready to go fly

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partnership come together it's great to

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partnership and just a tremendous time

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inergia top management you have a better

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sense than almost anybody as to how

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strong and how robust this all is at

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point at this age of the space station

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technical challenge of the space station

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challenges are just huge and and to

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really come together and work and figure

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that that may actually be harder for

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spirit of how can we accomplish this

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model for others of how real teams can

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continuous uh american and international

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international space station how

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planet of the earth for 14 consecutive

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years and and to think there's kids that

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industry we don't quite see it that way

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rise but again we work together through

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those challenges and tremendous things

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earth so so this these 14 years have

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beyond low earth orbit and i clearly

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orbit and it's a very historical

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spirit that is know how we need to

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yes and in fact i mean i was

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also in mia so i know a little bit

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how

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work and life on the station looks like

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yes i think

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i could proudly say i'm one of the

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pioneers within the isa program at least

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i'm now of course also very

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pleased that younger

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colleagues

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uh continue what we started more than 20

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years ago and if i tell you you are a

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backup you need to go tomorrow will you

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go

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sure

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if you buy me a ticket

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did you miss it

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well okay i mean you have to be

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realistic it's time now for the next

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generation to continue what we started

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i mean if there would be