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house committee on science space and

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technology this is mission control

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houston

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we have you loud and clear

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that is great uh the gentleman from

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california mr rohrabacher will be

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this congressman dana rohrabacher and uh

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to

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give us an understanding of the

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challenge of space debris how the space

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station deals with it

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and if there's some other

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challenges like that that we may not be

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thinking about here that we have to deal

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with before we build a new station in

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ahead it's a good question congressman

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yes we do have to worry about space

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debris up here as a matter of fact a

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couple nights ago we had to do a

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debris avoidance maneuver uh when we

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realized that there was going to be a

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piece of debris close to our path so we

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luckily mission control has a good

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program set up so when they see that

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they go ahead and execute it and within

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a few hours we're out of way out of

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harm's way and we have people on the

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ground who monitor that for us and they

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know where everything is as for where

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the debris is and where we are and they

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the gentlewoman from texas ms johnson

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ranking member of this committee is

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thank you very much mr chairman and

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greetings to commander wiseman and dr

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it's a lot of excitement on this end

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watching you

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i'd like both of you to comment on the

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aspects of the international space

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station program that's most important in

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enabling fuel human

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space exploration beyond the uh

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oh i don't want to take your entire day

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up i could talk about this subject

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forever um really it's it's getting

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humans into low earth orbit and having

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us live up here right now for six months

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at a time and in just a little over a

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year we'll have scott kelly up here for

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an entire year and it's it's all the

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things that happen to the human body and

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also what our spacecraft needs to

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provide to us like oxygen

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to breathe water to drink all of the

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food the supplies and just running this

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machine through its paces

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over six months or even a year at a time

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that's what we're going to need when we

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go onward to mars and spend two or three

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in space so we need to test all this

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stuff now on the space station so that

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in a decade or so we can head on to mars

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the gentleman from texas mr hall is

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mr chairman i thank you for linking our

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committee to these two astronauts

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commander wiseman and dr swanson i

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remember the house floor debate on june

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23 1993

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in this committee in this room

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when this committee came within one vote

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of killing the space station that

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congressman markey had fought for

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forever our argument made on behalf of

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space station was the importance of

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providing something tangible that our

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children can dream about and then aim

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their education their careers towards so

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i'll just ask a simple question how do

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you think this space station has

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inspired young people and can give us

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some examples of efforts on the space

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station to engage young people and

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inspire them to pursue stem education

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what would you say to me the space

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about the stem program a matter of fact

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in the local high school and that's what

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we do is experiment we have up here and

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the kids themselves get to program the

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spheres satellites that float around

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here and they have competitions and i

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just saw it on the kids faces when they

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got to have their program run on the

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station they got so enthused about

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the gentlewoman from maryland miss

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edwards is recognized

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thank you very much and thank you so

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much i have to tell you i am so excited

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i wish i could be you when i grow up

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my my question and greetings to reid

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weissman a fellow marylander

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you know we'll package some freeze-dried

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crab cakes for you up there

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i wonder if you could

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i got that signal i wonder if i wonder

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if you could tell us though

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the importance of the work that you do

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and how you were inspired to join the

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space program what inspired you because

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i think it is really a challenge for us

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to figure out what ex inspires the next

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that's a great question and i think back

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to my childhood and certainly it was

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when the space shuttle was just being

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developed and launched back in 1981 i

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around six years old at the time and i

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definitely remember a 747 flying over

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maryland and i was at in towson with my

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parents we had gone up to the top of a

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hill for the simple act of watching a

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space shuttle fly over on the back of a

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747 as they were transporting it and

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that image has burned into my mind

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and that probably started the course

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that i i was on to become not only a

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navy pilot test pilot and then an

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astronaut so to me we never know

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as as adults we never know that little

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thing that's going to spark the

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imagination of a child's mind and for me

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it was a simple airplane with a space

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shuttle flying all right that's not

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simple but it was that simple act of

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being with my parents and that's what

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sparked my imagination and so

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as much as we can from up here and nasa

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on the ground to reach out to to kids

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and just expose them to this world this

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world that's in motion i think you never

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know when you're going to spark their

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imagination and i'm sure that we're

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the gentleman from mississippi mr

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palazzo is recognized

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hey reed and steve thanks for talking to

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us today hopefully the chairman of the

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full committee will allow us to have a

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congressional trip to the space station

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i have a question for you from one of my

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constituents in south mississippi

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suzanne would like to know how do you

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deal with the incredible solitude for

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that is an interesting question

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um each person probably does it a little

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time is look out the window on our

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beautiful planet and when we have free

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time we always go over to this window we

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have called the cupola it's basically

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like the glass bottom boat of our ship

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and we look down on earth and it's

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fantastic and that's what keeps us going

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i think just looking at our beautiful

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the gentleman from california mr peters

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thank you mr chairman hello gentlemen i

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lead in science i wondered if you could

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space exploration and research is

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to maintaining our nation's lead in

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cutting edge and this is just one of our

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many uh pieces i guess in our overall

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uh u.s portfolio of leading this

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technological revolution that we're

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living day-to-day and so uh i don't know

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right here just just off our screen to

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the right there's the arm of robonaut

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and robonaut is hanging out we just had

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him out last night to do uh to do some

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upgrades and we'll bring it out and get

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down the road so the work we're doing up

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here is right on the cutting edge but

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that's just one small piece across our

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entire country of what's going on and a

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lot of it is thanks to uh government

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funding and pumping money into this

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research that's critical for our nation

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not just five years down the road but 50

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and 100 years down the road to stay on

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the gentleman from alabama mr brooks is

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dr swanson commander weissmann hi i'm mo

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home of the marshall space flight center

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as a child i grew up feeling the ground

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shake as the saturn v rocket was tested

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and i vividly remember apollo 11 when

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neil armstrong descended from the lunar

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module declaring one small step for man

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one giant leap for mankind

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the apollo program was american

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exceptionalism at its best it made us

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all proud to be americans my question is

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what mission should america's space

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program next embark on to be the next

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we should get ourselves to mars i know

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but i believe we can do it and this is

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do is learn how to live in space and

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recycle everything we need to from water

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our own food all that kind of stuff so

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we can reduce the amount of supplies

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create a robust system and right here

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to do a few other steps before we get

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the gentlewoman from massachusetts ms

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thank you it is great to be here i have

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some questions from the compass summer

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program students in cambridge

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massachusetts they submitted over 40

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a suitcase and what's the temperature

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from chloe what fuel do you use to

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to support the space shuttle and from

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luke has anyone had a birthday and if so

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we pack in a very very small suitcase

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it's about that big we get about one and

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a half kilograms um the fuel that we use

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well for our rocket ship we basically

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use kerosene and oxygen to get up here

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and then once we're on the space station

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we have a hypergolic fuel mix that we

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use to keep us here but we don't have to

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did have a russian crewmate who had a

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birthday and right behind the camera we

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have a dinner table there

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in node one and we all gather around

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that table all six of us and we share

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u.s food european food russian food

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really a really great evening

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unfortunately i don't think there were

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any presents to unwrap but sasha

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the gentleman from florida mr posey is

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dr swanson and commander wiseman

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sometimes it's hard for americans to

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understand why human space exploration

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is so important

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can you take a moment to explain

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how the work you're doing now on the

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international space station benefits

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i think there's a few different ways to

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look at that question one we are doing

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research right now uh on our scientific

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aspect we do from burning new ways to

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learn how actual fire works in the

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details part of it we do medical

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research up here we've just

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through station research we've come up

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with ways to get chemotherapy to the

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target areas of the body more

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effectively

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just one of an example the other thing

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you have a look at is is that humans are

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meant to explore i believe and this is

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one path that we need to take and now

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we're starting off and this fulfills

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that idea i think for our just not just

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the whole race of humans and that's one

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thing we need to do and the other aspect

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i believe this is a really good

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investment a lot of spin-off

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technologies come out of this it creates

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uh economy uh sorry it's good for the

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economy it creates money for our country

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and it creates a better world for all of

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the gentleman from washington mr kilmer

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is recognized

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thank you mr chairman and thank you for

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being with us um

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i have two quick questions that came

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from the young gentleman behind me uh

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here

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uh uh one is just trying to get a sense

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uh more of uh of how the space station

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plays into um the effort to go to mars

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and a little bit more specific about uh

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what what the utility is of the space

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station then he also wants to know

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um

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uh as we look out into uh this century

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what's what's on the horizon what what

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other new frontiers do you think we're

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going to to visit and he also wants to

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know how many other planets are we going

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to discover

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is that right

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all right

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well let's start with the let's start

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with the end question how many planets

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limitless it just depends on how how

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good our sensors get in our lifetimes as

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to how many we're going to discover

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perhaps every time you look up at night

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at any star you got to think there's a

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solar system around that star so

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it just blows my mind i know

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for the space station and how does this

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play into our long duration missions if

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we're going to go to mars we're going to

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set out on a three plus year journey and

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if you have one major system break

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without spares on that journey and that

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could be your own human body your heart

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your muscles your bones that could be

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your environmental control system that

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could be your engines your solar arrays

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any piece of that puzzle falls apart and

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now you've lost your your mission to

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mars so this is the test bed this is

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where we start

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the the fundamental blocking and

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tackling of this challenge to get to

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mars and i think that research is being

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done right now and we're seeing very

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successful results our water balance is

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almost at 90 percent so we recycle our

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urine into drinking water we recycle

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water into oxygen we have a really

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amazing regenerative system up here and

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it's proving extremely effective and

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we're working on reliability that's

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and i hope that covers enough of your

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the gentleman from texas mr stockman

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thank you for uh having this broadcast

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today as you're my constituents i

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appreciate what you're doing i'm also

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proud of our country and our support of

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you but some of you

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may know that up here it's not universal

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support which i think is a mistake and

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what would you if you were me what would

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you tell my colleagues

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why they should be supportive of your

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efforts and why we should vote three

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times the amount of money that we're

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supporting right now

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or

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i would be happy with twice but that's a

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good question um that's a really good

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question really because again it goes

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back to what do we provide for our the

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taxpayer and i do think we one we

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provide research and development

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that's what we get out of this we get

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new products new ideas new science new

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research which always helps the country

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in the future maybe 10 15 years down the

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road and again that creates new

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companies which does again goes better

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for the economy we get that we inspire

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the new generation which hopefully gets

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them to be productive and help out and

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make our country stronger and we then

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are explorers which again help the whole

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human race i would try to go with those

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the gentleman from california mr

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swahwell

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hello and

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my questions today come from the bay

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area and i have three young aspiring

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astronauts uh with questions uh shay

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daley of san ramon

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phoebe bruns of castro valley

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and julia warren of castro valley and

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the first question is an easy one for

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commander wiseman and that is what is

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your favorite food in space

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and also for

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dr swanson

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the question is

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do you think one day we'll encounter

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planet go first okay i i am uh i'm a

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food lover and uh but there is one

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particular food that they know when they

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open the desserts box uh all chocolate

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pudding cake goes directly to reed

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wiseman's uh locker and so i am hoarding

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chocolate pudding cake i cannot get

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enough of this stuff i tried it on earth

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and i didn't really like it that much

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but there's something about this cake up

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here that i uh i'm in love with so i'll

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pass it over to dr swanson for the

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follow on

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for the follow-on question i have to say

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yes i mean that's just that uh endless

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as as reid pointed out as you look up

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there's so many solar systems out there

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so many planets so many possibilities i

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figure that it just has to be somewhere

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and sometime it will happen absolutely

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absolutely

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the gentleman from arizona mr schweikert

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is recognized thank you mr chairman and

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a texan on my staff wants me to say

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howdy

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um and your experience so far what have

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you found that has surprised you on

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what's robust

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um has held up

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quite well on the space station and what

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have you found that is fragile that you

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see we're going to have to do future

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yeah so i would lead that off uh sir

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with

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this is my first space flight and i've

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known the space station uh for many many

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years uh we're into our 5 000 plus day

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of ops up here and one of the first

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things that struck me when i arrived is

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i expected to see an aging system i

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expected uh it to be well i don't know

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from the tv maybe it does look messy to

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you but every one of these wires has a

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purpose and when i got up here i

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realized this is a brilliant laboratory

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it's in overall amazing shape it's been

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very well cared for and i think it's

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basically a testament to the engineering

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that went in the robustness of the

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design that here we've been operating

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5000 days and this thing really looks

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like a brand new machine up here uh very

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impressive to me from from that aspect

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some things that aren't quite as

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reliable the things that have surprised

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me a little bit is you really get to see

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how quickly technology on earth develops

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when you come up here this was developed

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in the 80s and 90s and

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and really you do see ethernet cables

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running all around the outside because

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we didn't necessarily have that

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technology when they built it we just

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flew up some tablets and i mean there's

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a device that that

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a year ago i hardly even knew and now at

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home i can barely live without and so

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just building on these technologies as

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we go over time has been somewhat of a

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surprise you can kind of see the

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evolution of technology up here and so

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that's something in future designs i

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don't even know how you account for that

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the gentlewoman from connectedness sd is

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recognized probably for the last

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question

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thank you mr chairman the students of

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waterbury connecticut home of rick

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mastracchio want to know what they can

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best do to become astronauts of the

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well of course it always goes with study

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hard

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you have to do well in school that's a

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given and also it's find something that

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you're really passionate about in life

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of course it helps if it's science and

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technology or engineering to get this

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job but you find an area in there that

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you're passionate about do it well

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enjoy it and that will show when you go

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and try to become an astronaut and

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that's what they're really looking for

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somebody who's passionate about the

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unfortunately we are out of time the

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astronauts are out of time we want to

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thank you both for spending

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20 minutes with us today appreciate all

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your answers to the questions we look