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that's right guys thank you very much

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exciting day for us here nasa flight

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engineer reid weisman is joining us live

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reed good morning you've gained over 124

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what inspired you to share all those

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well carson if you could just see the

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one day you would realize it's it's just

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taking pictures of our daily life it's

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just amazing this environment is

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incredible and it's a huge honor to be

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you're doing a great job of it you've

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also shared some world cup spirit that

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you guys are experiencing up there tell

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us about you having a full head of hair

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well i definitely i had some some uh

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some time just to say goodbye to my hair

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and then i went down and uh my commander

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steve swanson and our german crewmate

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alex gerst grabbed the clippers and

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honest carson i think i like it i think

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enjoying your post we wanted to return

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the favor to you so we're asking people

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to take a picture of their view from

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earth right now i'm going to do the same

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thing you're going to see our lovely

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cameraman johnny here but i'm going to

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take a picture and read we want you to

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be sure you can search the hashtag here

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on earth it'll be a touch of home for

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you speaking of which when you get home

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in november back to earth what's the

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number one and then maybe a trip uh to

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belgium today i'm sure you guys will be

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watching reid weissman on the

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international space station our best to

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everybody there on expedition 40 guys

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back to you savannah had a really good

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station this is houston acr that

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please stand by for a voice check from

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station this is wjz tv how do you hear

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i've got you loud and clear wjz good to

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excellent excellent

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hey a big hello back to everyone in

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maryland from the international space

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station it's a huge honor to be up here

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reid i had this amazing opportunity to

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meet your parents bill and judy they are

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what is your shout out to them this

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you got to thank your parents you know

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they uh they did an amazing job raising

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everything that they gave us every

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every risk that they took to help us

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fantastic and it's it's a great

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testament to them to be floating here on

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your parents tell me that you were

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fascinated with space growing up you

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actually in space this is something you

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phenomenal it's so overwhelming to look

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space to a whole new level you have

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space station and you're going to see

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things kind of a little different than

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around space station and you see

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interesting and that's really the

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pole in our orbit but we get close

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enough to see these i call them green

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snakes that are just weaving through our

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love to see your view of us for sure i

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letter that was given to you when you

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boarded the iss can you share with us

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what it said she was pretty emotional

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your parents and it was absolutely

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beautiful it was straight from my mom's

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heart and and it's it's saved forever

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maryland who have been watching your

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every move what is your advice for them

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take in life i would just say enjoy

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your life it's your one life to live so

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you gotta enjoy it and so when you go

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out into the professional world and you

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that you absolutely love you should wake

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just a as a new opportunity and and i

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that i think you're going to be a happy

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spacewalks and do you know when those

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uh what is everything surprises you when

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in three dimensions and and looking not

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do some of the experiments what are some

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end i'll tell you that one in a second

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capillary flow experiments which is

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it's called bass

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that still works at wjz that goes by the

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same last name and every time i crank up

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this glove box to do burning and

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suppression of solids or the bass

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experiment i get a huge chuckle and i

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remember back to my childhood of

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watching uh this crazy reporter down on

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wjz bringing the news to my parents my

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brother and i sitting there in

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reed you're absolutely right it's marty

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bass and he is a huge fan of yours and

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certainly what you guys are doing up in

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the iss that's awesome i'll make sure i

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tell him and real quickly read before we

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scott who is marty bass's partner is

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retiring after uh 40 years here at wjz

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oh absolutely 40 years on wjz i watched

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as a kid i think you're always you're

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always hoping for that that snow delay

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at school so i remember many evenings

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watching wjz just waiting for that snow

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delay so i think that's my best memory

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thanks for 40 great years and i wish you

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and read from everyone down here on

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absolutely fascinating every day so

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thanks a lot this has been a lot of fun