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station this is Houston are you ready

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for the event yes I am CBS Radio News

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this is Mission Control Houston please

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good afternoon this is CBS Radio News

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how do you hear me I have you loud and

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clear commander Steve Swanson good

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afternoon this is Peter King along with

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bill Harwood we're both in Florida and

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glad to talk to you this afternoon and

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as we talk to you you're getting ready

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to welcome a new crew aboard

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so wondering how much work it takes to

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get ready for the new guys it's a little

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bit of work it's not too much it's just

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we still put in the same amount of time

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each day and we're looking forward to it

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so it's a work that's enjoyable because

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I know the what's gonna come out of this

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work it's gonna go I'm gonna get some

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new crewmates and that's going to make

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life much better up here we spoke with

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Reid Wiseman a few days ago actually a

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couple of weeks ago and he seems very

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very excited to come up on his very

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first spaceflight what do you think is

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gonna be the hardest adjustment for him

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to make when it comes to living in this

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kind of environment for the first time

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with everything floating and you just

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have to slow down take your time and let

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things go because if you try to view

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things too quickly up here it's not

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going to turn out so well hey Steve it's

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you guys have a really busy summer

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coming up I guess there's there's two

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and one of those I think includes you

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where do things stand on getting the US

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they just unlocked about a week ago

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there are lots of samples from the suits

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that were sent down for the engineers to

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study once we get the results of that

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which hopefully will be within a couple

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of weeks we can then hopefully to clear

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do you anticipate the challenge getting

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ready for these EVs I really sound

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relatively straightforward but I'm not

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yes I had a true statement even if it

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looks straightforward on paper doesn't

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mean it's gonna turn out that way so no

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we'll prep just like we normally do for

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every VA and try to cover all the

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contingencies but it'll be fun doing

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them we're looking forward to it let me

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ask one more real quick one for I pitch

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it back to Peter and it's the obligatory

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crisis and things that have been said

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Russia US sanctions all of that has any

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of that had any impact on you and your

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crewmates I'm just wondering if you guys

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we might talk about a bit more in the

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sense of just kind of whether the

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politics are doing it does not affect

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our working relationship but we're still

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good friends so we get along very well

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negative basis but we do you know keep

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informed in the news and just trying to

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follow along so that we are informed

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Steve it's Peter King again how much as

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you're keeping informed how much

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attention do you pay to the rhetoric

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that's going on on both sides and how

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much do you guys actually talked about

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like most people do and so that's where

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that kind of information but we don't

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talk about it much honestly unless

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something new came up wouldn't say that

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see what that means because we honestly

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commander I'm just wondering if any of

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smoothly you've got a really busy

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busy time at the same time one of the

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lot you do because the scientists are

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things that that you're working with

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many experiments on ourselves from

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ultrasounds to I experiment stew all

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sorts of things but for other ones right

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experiment I have to water it and tend

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to it every day hey it's bill Harwood

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one more time how important is it gets

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good six crew back on board you know

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always thought that you know there's

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science it's done even right now with

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government up here it would definitely

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to Peter again I'm just wondering from a

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personal standpoint you know when you're

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important personal or family milestones

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while you're there yes I am actually in

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about a week my son is going to graduate

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I'm gonna miss that unfortunately but it

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at least and so that's a little I mean

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sad for me but we've talked about it we

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address or at least part of the

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commencement address for University of

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Connecticut do you have any such thing

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graduation no no no I'm just gonna

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most surprising part of my stay I've

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everything coming up here so nothing

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be amazed every time I look out the

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that you don't hey it's bill again let

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me just follow that up for a second I'm

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period of time it's just like visiting

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your country or some other place and you

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know maybe your electrical outlet

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live there for six months you're gonna

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want to get a fix to that you're gonna

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solve your problem and it's Peter again

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and along those lines is there anything

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ABC News did you know how do you hear me

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great thank you we'll get going that was

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you take very seriously yes it is we

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with us today we really appreciate that

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and I wanted to start off you know has

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anything changed up there because of

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what is going on on the ground here

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between Russia and the US no nothing has

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changed for us our operations are

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continuing just as they always have how

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would you then describe the relationship

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then between the US astronauts and

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cosmonauts is it a rivalry is it is it a

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brotherhood in space almost oh it's

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definitely a brotherhood in space I mean

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we write up on the same rocket together

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we train together we've become close

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friends and we with not just my this

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crew here but other ones we've worked

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with before on the ground and so we're

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definitely a brotherhood of space

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explorers do you talk either among them

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ask other fellow astronauts or the

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cosmonauts the events that are happening

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I hear back on earth at all about the

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politics that that's happening yeah we

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do talk a little bit about the politics

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I mean you almost can't help but it's in

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the news and we watch the news and read

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the news and so we will talk about it

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but we also know that that's politics

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and then we also have our job over here

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which is not related 230 miles above

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Earth everything kind of separates a

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little bit now this is this is the

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second year this third time you've been

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to space station right and the first

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time though as a commander how different

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well it is quite a bit different and the

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first three times were on shuttle

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missions and they were short duration

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and they were to build a space station

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and concentrating on that task now it's

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totally different for me in a sense is

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that now I'm up here for a long duration

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my main task is science up here which is

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a big difference and also maintaining

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the station on a day to day basis and so

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those those aspects are even probably

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bigger than just doing the difference

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between me and a flight engineer and a

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commander as the commander role though

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the big difference is of course taking

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care of the big picture between the

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ground and us on board and making sure

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everything is running smoothly in both

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places now you went on a spacewalk back

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in April it seems that there are more

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and more robotic arms going up on the

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next kind of equipment runs if you will

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will there be fewer spacewalks in in the

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future given that robotics is gonna be

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playing a larger role well no I think

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probably there will be larger robotic

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operations but that's good because I

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think we're still going to have plenty

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of spacewalks to do there's other things

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that we can do that it can't do and so

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if we didn't have the robotic arm

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helping us we'd have almost too many

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spacewalks to do and wouldn't get much

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else done so it's a great trade-off find

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now that we have going alright let me

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ask you this and given the fact that it

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is your third trip up there and you've

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kind of grown accustomed to life on the

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ISS but what are you really missing what

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are you craving back here on earth I'd

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say well of course you know being with

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the family and friends and I guess the

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first and foremost Sun on your mind all

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the time but if you take that one aside

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what do you crave most and I would say

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that if thing for me is like being able

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to cook on my grill outside in the

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backyard and put a nice hamburger or a

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juicy steak on there and do the whole

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things up that way that's what I'm

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missing all right well then I won't tell

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you the fact we've had some beautiful

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weather down here recently in North

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America but that being inside you've had

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some special social media history from

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your time up there at the ISS in fact

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because you were the first one to

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to Graham from space did you realize

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that you were going to be this milestone

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maker no I didn't I had no idea that was

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happening so I was kind of taking by

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surprise about the whole event you're

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from Colorado you love the great

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outdoors clearly you love barbecuing

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grilling outside they're mountain biking

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mountain climbing as well obviously you

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can't do that in space so what do you do

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up there to relax for downtime well I

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still work out and that does help me

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relax but for other downtime looking at

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the window was a number-one downtime you

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can have it it's still it's not being

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outside but I get to see the some

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beautiful scenery it's like you got to

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climb to the top of some big mountain

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and then you get to look out upon the

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valleys and everything below and that's

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still a great thing to see so that shows

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that relaxed me too besides that a

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little watching TV and just hanging out

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with the guys watching TV alright what

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are your favorite shows then when you

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guys are out there you guys I'm assuming

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there's one maybe one or a limited

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number of television sets up there so

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you guys have to kind of agree on what

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everyone's going to watch right well we

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watch them on our laptops and so you can

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if we're watching together well of

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course I have to be y'all huddle around

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a little laptop screen and we do of

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course watch some sports since you know

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that's a standard a nice a group

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activity to do but there's also some

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other shows anywhere from my Game of

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Thrones or stuff like that that we watch

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together so tell me a little about the

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work that you guys are doing up there

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what are some of the spirit experiments

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that you guys are conducting there's

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many experiments this is over 170 so

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there's a different types there's ones

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that are like outside that we don't even

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touch which I think are very interesting

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the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer which is

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trying to look for our dark energy and

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dark matter and anti-matter which is I

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find fascinating there's now we got that

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HD camera that's outside looking down

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and taking pictures and people can see

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it online I think that's great we also

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have opals experiment which is trying to

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use lasers to communicate to the ground

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in a very high bandwidth that's great

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inside though we do many other

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experiments most of them on right now or

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I seem to be on plants and working with

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them or on the human body and I'm

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working with out on ourselves and trying

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to figure out well how we are adapting

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and what are our bodies going through

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for the changes from living up here so

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you guys are actually growing plants up

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there like common ordinary everyday

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plants yeah right now I'm growing

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romaine lettuce and trying to get it to

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grow up to be a large plant if we could

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possibly eat this is this the first time

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we're trying this so I'm actually not

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going to get to eat it though I have to

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send it back to the ground when they

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have to analyze it and check out what

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microbes are on it etc and anything

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interesting or different about this one

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that would cause it to be not edible

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so we're kind of taking it safe first

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and no but it's starting to look pretty

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fascinating well we certainly appreciate

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your time and all the work that you guys

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are doing up there on the ISSP Swanson

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