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and joining us from the space station

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are commander reid wiseman and mission

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commander dr steve swanson gentlemen uh

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it uh is a marvelous thing to be able to

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connect with you in this way tell me can

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you give me some sense of where you are

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yes we can right now we're over the

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pacific ocean and of course our earth is

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mostly water 70 percent so we spend

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about 70 percent of our time over water

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and the station's traveling at what

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we're going about 17 500 miles an hour

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and we're about 260 miles above earth's

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surface

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and i'm told that that's about 11 times

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faster than a rifle bullet that's pretty

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impressive stuff even in this day and

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age

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you know commander weissman let me ask

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you

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it was my life's ambition to be an

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i don't think we have enough time on

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this on this program to give you all the

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basics but i would say

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without a doubt the view out the window

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is way beyond what i ever dreamed it

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would be and i gotta say as a kid you

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always want to float everywhere you go

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and up here it's just no problem you

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just float on down to the bathroom float

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on over to the window float down to the

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dinner table and really it's

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that looks like a lot of fun you know

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dr swanson let me ask you what what is

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the mission that you're doing it's not

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no you're right we like to have fun but

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our main mission is science up here we

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perform over 170 experiments while we're

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up here and of course we have to

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maintain the station and keep it running

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efficiently and smoothly

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and how's the station doing after all

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well it's doing pretty well but just

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like any ship it needs its periodic

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maintenance and so things do fail and uh

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it's uh i actually like doing the fixing

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so we get to do that once in a while and

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sometimes we even get to go outside and

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commander wiseman let me ask you a

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couple of questions about uh all this

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tweeting that you've been doing

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uh you've really caught on in the social

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media world with all these pictures

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you've been sending out what are a

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couple of your favorite pictures that

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well certainly so far coming up over the

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coast of chile

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and seeing the volcanic field that i saw

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there that was really spectacular

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and then just this morning

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we came over the the northern coast of

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australia and i was in the cupola with

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uh dr swanson and we just looked down

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the way the clouds and the red desert

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met the ocean uh from up here the view

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was absolutely spectacular and it's it's

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burned in my mind and i'm never going to

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when you first stepped aboard the

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station what did you think you're one of

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the most enthusiastic astronauts we've

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uh there was about a thousand thoughts

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running through my head first and

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foremost was awesome to come through the

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hatch and give this guy a hug because

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we've been friends for quite a while uh

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so it was great to see steve up here uh

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but really i think the thing it's like

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driving a car at 80 miles an hour into a

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into a brick wall you're just

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overwhelmed you've trained for for two

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to five years for this mission and then

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you get on board the space station and

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your world is not like you thought it

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would be zero g nothing works the way

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your mind wants it to work and it's just

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you're so overwhelmed at least for the

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first two or three days that it's hard

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to wrap your head around what all is

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one of my favorite pictures you sent was

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the picture of the red dye as it was

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well my grandfather uh i don't know why

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but he would always just give me these

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red playing die when i was a kid

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and playing dice and i really just i

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loved him as a kid and i've always kept

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a handful of them in my jewelry chest at

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home and right before i left i threw a

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few of them in a ziploc bag and i

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brought them with me and i don't know

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why that picture worked so well it's

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just really neat to see that crisp red

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dye against the blackness of space with

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our earth under it i think the the

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playing die is something that that

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everybody can kind of relate to so it's

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like a little toy up there floating

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around that everybody can imagine but

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it's in this completely foreign

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environment and i think that's why that

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picture is so spectacular

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do you guys get a crafts game going once

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it would be hard for i think we would

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throw the dice and they would just keep

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going all the way down to the russian

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segment so we might have to work on that

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dr swanson you've been outside in in a

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spacesuit working on repairs on the

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station what is that like to be outside

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it's another great experience

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and with many different emotions too

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when you do that of course again just

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like looking out the window in our

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cupola the probably the biggest one is

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the view and again it's just you and

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this uh helmet with a visor and you can

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see everything now without any

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obstructions and that just view is

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fantastic in itself and then the work

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usually and so you really have to

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concentrate on that and that makes you a

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little bit nervous just because the uh

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the the pressure i think on you at that

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point and then the fact that you're uh

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in your own little spacesuit in the

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vacuum of space also adds a little more

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pressure to the whole situation but

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you know i'm curious

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commander wiseman how do you tweet from

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there i i take it you don't have a

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no there is no smartphone but

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if i see something that i really like i

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actually uh send it down to uh some of

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at nasa in houston and uh and they go on

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to twitter and post that for me so i'm

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get these tweets out there it's really

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the only way to do it if i had to log

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onto the internet every time i would

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spend 90 percent of my day trying to get

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onto twitter and the other 10 work and

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in reality it's about 99 work and 10 1

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and and finally uh dr swanson tell me a

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little bit about the mission going

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forward how long are you going to be

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reid has another two months after that

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our mission uh right now hopefully we're

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called cygnus or orbital 2

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hopefully soon and that will bring us

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supplies and more science to do

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to go do some space walks to repair some

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equipment that is broken outside we're

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which again has more science and more

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cargo on it so we have a multitude of

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cargo vehicles plus some spacewalks plus

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lots of science it's going to be a fun

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come on now admit it you you look

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forward to things breaking on the

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the treadmill i'm hoping we're going to

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be in a nice relationship soon but

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zero g everything inside you is floating

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don't have to do any workouts at all you

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getting on the treadmill have to start

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doing some exercise and that first time

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bowling ball in my stomach and it was

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bouncing on places that you've never

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felt food bounced before your stomach

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and i ran for about one minute and i

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went and grabbed steve i'm like steve

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what is this is this normal because i

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felt like i was falling apart inside and

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he said yeah just keep running keep

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running it'll be fine don't worry and

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sure enough after the first two or three

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times it's uh it's become easier and

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well naval commander reed wiseman to

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port and dr steven swanson the mission

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commander to starboard gentlemen thank

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you very much great to be with you thank

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it's been our pleasure thank you scott

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station this is cbs

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new york is tim brown from cbs this

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uh good morning how are you today

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doing well thank you so much i

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appreciate you just taking a couple

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minutes here we'll probably use a lot of

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couple follow-up questions for you if

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no problem we're ready

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no problem

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mission here the uh the purpose was

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march the end of march so i've been here

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about two and a half months and uh

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performed lots of science and we did a

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spacewalk to repair a piece of equipment

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uh yes and reid a question for you the

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um are you aware of sort of the

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celebrity that you have achieved back

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uh photos that you've posted to twitter

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uh my wife's been keeping me up to speed

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on some of the the news clippings but

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absolutely astonishing to me i certainly

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wanted to share kind of my first

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impressions up here for the first week

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or two of of what it's like to be a

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rookie on the space station and really

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that's great and just one last question

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just to kind of maintain i wouldn't say

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reawaken but just the the magic of space

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flight and putting a human into such a

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farm place everything is just unusual up

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here the view the living

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could just capture a little of that and

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and spark some imagination in some folks

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around the world back in the us in

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particular then that's a mission

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thank you so much guys i really

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no problem take care