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reuben h fleet science center this is

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mission control houston please call

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station for a voice check

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stations

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we have you loud and clear

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all right excellent

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good morning for us i'm not sure what

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time it is up there but

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glad to have you join us today let's

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jump right into we got some great

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questions from the kids here and i want

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to make sure we get to them not listen

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to the battle let's start right off with

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how long do you get to stay on the space

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we get to stay for five and a half

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and how long could you stay for me five

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and a half months however i think

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there's other people are going to stay

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longer

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and uh and it all depends i think more

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on your psychological

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aspect of this physically i think you

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can stay here for a while

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but after a while you just want to come

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all right our next question here is from

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what's up academic appropriation do you

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get as close as you can to the

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is there any way you could repeat the

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question a little closer to the

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what type of academic preparation do you

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need to become an astronaut do you have

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yeah i think it was what's the education

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to become an astronaut i'd say yes you

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need a masters uh in many cases like uh

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steve swanson has a phd i have a

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master's degree so you

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at least need that and then what field

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do you study i would say pick a field of

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study that you really enjoy i think

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that's kind of the key is if you really

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enjoy and are passionate about what

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you're studying then that's kind of what

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nasa wants that's what they look for

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please get as close to the microphone as

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you can when you ask your questions

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students all right next up we have a

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is it always dark outside

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we go around the earth every 90 minutes

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and that gives us 16 sunrises and 16

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sunsets every day so it's wonderful for

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us we get to have a beautiful time up

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here looking out the window it's

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all right thank you next up we have

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how far away from the earth are you and

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so that's a great question uh because it

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seems like we would be so much closer to

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the moon than to the earth when we're up

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here but in reality we're going around

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the earth just barely only about 250

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miles off the surface of the earth so

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we're really really close and if i was

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to show you the moon it would be about

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40 feet away from us so it would be

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in this in this little model so from up

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here the moon still looks very small and

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all right no surprising answer let's

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look at the scale of where they are next

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what is your favorite type of food to

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my favorite type of food that's a good

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question i think it changes a little bit

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as the time goes on when you're up here

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but right now i'm going with the seafood

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and i happen to have one right here so

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this is what our food comes in little

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packages and we heat it up we put it in

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a little heater and we just open it up

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and then use a spoon and eat it just

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like you would at home except we get to

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play with our food and uh that's the fun

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steve if you could repeat every question

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and be helpful we can't hear the

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students too

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how competitive is it to become an

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astronaut did you have to take a

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how competitive is it to become an

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so to become an astronaut yes it's

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extremely competitive in the last group

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we just selected eight uh people in 2013

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and there was almost 7 000 people

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applied and we only picked eight and

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so what sort of exams do you have to go

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through it's a it's a pretty rigorous

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two-week uh interview process and i

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nervous for is the medical tests and

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also the interview with a panel of about

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astronauts and that always gets the

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all right next up we have maya

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is the food good do you get hot coffee

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house of food

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food i think was a question so this is

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what our drinks come in for come in and

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also this is a coffee drink right here

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we can just add water to it shake it up

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a little bit and we have our coffee now

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may not be might not be a starbucks

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coffee but it's pretty good

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and steve doesn't drink coffee so i'm

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gonna steal this from him right now and

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put it in my pocket

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no and the food is good too it's it's

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not like eating at home but it's still

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that's a great question and one that i

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don't really feel the effect of gravity

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around the earth so if you imagine

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taking a baseball and throwing it so

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unbelievably hard that that it would

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just always be going around the earth

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and then that baseball would be in orbit

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with us and that's really the only thing

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that the rocket did when it launched us

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is it just through us so fast that we're

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hitting it so it looks like we have no

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gravity and we don't feel gravity but

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we're still getting pulled by earth just

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what has been your most breathtaking

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my most breathtaking moment while in

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space that's a tough one there's lots of

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doing my first space walk

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hatch and so it was kind of all normal

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that's exactly like in the big pool we

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station which the way it was built then

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station and that's when the sun came out

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station below me and it was so beautiful

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and this one helped us for ruth

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the international space station to

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international space station to be able

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world cup we actually get a satellite

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feed and we've been watching all of the

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games and uh it's quite a blast

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tomorrow's the big one though for this

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how how does time work on on the space

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how does time work that's another good

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that london is on and besides that

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we have the 17 sorry 16 sunrises and

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sunsets every day we still go off the

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normal standard day but we just live off

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how did it feel to launch into space

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profession and about 10 seconds after

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of the rocket was so intense i couldn't

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your brain it's completely overwhelming

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the amount of energy and speed that you

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how do you train your body to go to

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space do you need to eat dirty foods or

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bone density and so it's good to help

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really the only internet connectivity we

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have up here is email so we can email uh

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our family and our friends back on earth

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but we really have a lot of trouble

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getting on the internet uh which is

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quite a change when you're so used to

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having your your smartphone down on the

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space station and that is a great

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space walk one of course you have to get

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whole idea of being outside uh and just

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that suit is just fantastic but then

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all right next we have bernice

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what are the different types of jobs you

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well we do we do have to take uh just

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about any role you could imagine so

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really we act as doctors

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we act as repairmen

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we acted as plumbers earlier today

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working on our toilet

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we act as scientists so basically any

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job that you you could ever imagine we

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have to do this is not only is this our

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laboratory this is also our home this is

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our gymnasium so this is really it and

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we have to take care of it we have to

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work on it and we have to keep it

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running in tip-top shape

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how does being weightless affect the

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well yes how does it affect the body

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well the first thing being weightless is

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really fun so we we will definitely do

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almost anything to get up here

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but it does affect the body one of

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course as you notice we don't walk

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around so our muscles especially in our

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legs become weaker the bones become

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weaker and smaller and also it affects

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your immune system it isn't as strong

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either so we could get sick more easily

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up here so you have to take precautions

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for that it also makes changes in your

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eyesight so we're learning we keep

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learning new things about how it affects

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our bodies as we keep flying in space up

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here that's why we do all the science on

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ourselves at the same time but we try to

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have precautions or methods to help out

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and mitigate these issues and so we come

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all right thank you now we have evelyn

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where do you sleep

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well if you've ever gone camping and

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slept in a uh sleeping bag we all sleep

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actually in sleeping bags and we have

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little tiny bedrooms that are about the

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size of a telephone booth they're

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extremely small

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but because we're weightless it actually

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feels like they're a bit bigger

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the crazy thing is right behind us in

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the camera one of us sleeps on the

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ceiling two of us sleep on the walls and

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one of us sleeps on the floor

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and we just have our sleeping bags tied

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off to the wall so we don't float out of

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our bedrooms and actually it works out

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really well it's actually pretty

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all right

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does somebody have to drive the space

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yeah mission control is in charge of

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driving the space station so they kind

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of set it up and today we actually had

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our reboost which is kind of like

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driving we once in a while we have to

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put the station a little bit higher

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because there's just a tiny bit of drag

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out here and it lowers our orbit just a

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little bit every day and so every few

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months we go ahead and raise it back up

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and we did that today and that was all

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done for mission control so they're the

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ones in charge of driving the space

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all right and now a question from

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what experience are you working on

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what experiments are you working on

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i think the question was what yeah what

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experiments we're working on right now

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and i don't know how well a video shows

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but right now i have a sensor on my

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forehead which

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is not the most glamorous experiment but

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they're measuring my body temperature

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over a two and a half day period

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just to see what space does to your

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your sleep cycles and there's very

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interesting data there and just

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yesterday

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a couple of us were working on

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massachusetts institute of technology

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experiment involving these

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tiny satellites and we have several of

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them and they all communicate with each

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other and they'll fly around and do

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different formations and someday

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hopefully

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these little things will go outside and

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start working on our space station

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without us needing to do anything which

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would really be neat and so that's a

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super fun experiment

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we've been burning things we've been

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doing plenty of experiments on our

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bodies

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and so and uh steve just got done

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growing some lettuce and our russians

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were growing onions so it's an extremely

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lively environment up here right now

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well thank you very much i know you've

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got limited time you've got lots to do

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up there but let me ask you one last

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question what's the most surprising

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thing you guys have encountered since

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that's a good question the most

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surprising thing since we've encountered

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since we've we've encountered since

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we've been up here do you have a good

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question

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so really this may seem like an odd

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answer i've been up here for about a

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month steve's been up here for about

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three and a half months i think the most

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surprising thing for me once you get

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over being weightless and looking

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outside and the beauty of the earth it's

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just how quickly the human body adapts

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to living up here so just just after

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about two weeks i was already used to

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almost every sensation up here and so at

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first it was just crazy and i didn't

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understand my brain didn't work and my

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stomach didn't work but now it just

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feels like a regular old everyday life

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and i'm right back into my normal habit

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so really the human body is the biggest

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surprise for me it's an amazing piece of

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station this is houston acr thank you

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thank you ruben h fleet science center

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and students stationed we are now