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station this is houston are you ready

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we are absolutely ready for the event

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wjla tv this is mission control houston

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station this is wjla tv how do you hear

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i've got you loud and clear up here

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sounds great commander thanks so much

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for joining us uh we're excited for this

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opportunity and i have to begin by

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talking to you about

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life in microgravity i know this is your

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first mission up there how is it faring

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so far i understand you

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had to bungee cord yourself to a wall

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uh so far it's really uh it's quite a

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joy it takes a couple days to get used

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to it it took me about a week or two and

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then i felt pretty good and yes i did

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i usually like to sleep on my stomach

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when i'm down on earth and so the other

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night i tried to put some bungee cords

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across the back of my body and just

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bungee cord myself to the wall and it

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worked pretty well i slept for a few

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hours but then i woke up and i went back

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to the good old sleeping bag which i

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all right innovation even up in space

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regarding sleep habits we like that uh

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of your progress and i think it's

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fascinating via social media because

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you're really good about this everything

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from the the tweets to the vines

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and i'm curious some of your favorites

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we've seen really some fascinating

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imagery that the lightning storm over

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italy was just absolutely beautiful and

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then of course he took some pictures of

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us back here in your home area

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what's your favorite and what do you

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well what do i enjoy most working with

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my crew is phenomenal looking outside is

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incredible and just getting to float

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that i really enjoy the feedback on

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twitter has been fantastic

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some of my favorite images

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couple weeks ago that was just amazing

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amazing is when you look outside uh

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either far up to the north or far down

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to the south and you get to see the

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aurora it's like you're swimming along

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with these green slowly weaving lights

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in the sky and it's really absolutely

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now chris hatfield set the bar pretty

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high with his space oddity version do

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you have any any desire any uh pressure

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absolutely no desire and no pressure to

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compete with chris hadfield plus i can't

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sing so it would be pretty much a

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it is interesting though that it uh

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helps kind of repopularize um space

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exploration for a younger generation or

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a generation that's more tuned to social

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media there is now a responsibility

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perhaps for you when you're up there to

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kind of keep people back here abreast of

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what you're doing and generate some more

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nasa appreciates it if we decide to go

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to twitter or instagram or any of those

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social media outlets but we're one of

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six people right now living off of our

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planet and i think we kind of have an

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obligation to share this experience this

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is an incredible place that we're we're

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really curious about and it's it's such

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a unique environment it's great to be

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able to share it and i think photos and

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especially the vine videos really help

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now before we get into the science of

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all this the research that you're

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conducting up there i am curious you're

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you're a local boy done good essentially

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you have literally made it to the top

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the maryland uh dc and virginia area

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above from that far above does it kind

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can look down and in one one glance i

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can see virginia beach uh all the way up

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through maryland all the way up to new

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york city and here is uh with just a few

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very small exceptions this is every

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place i've ever lived and every person

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that area all my friends from college up

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cover all of that it's amazing how how

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tiny it makes the east coast the u.s

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ours right what about communicating with

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uh your your friends and family back

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here in the dmv area and and is the best

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way for them to catch up with you to

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follow you on social media or is it

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going to be watching a story like ours

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tonight how do you like to communicate

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i'll take any communication i can get

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from up here so uh twitter is fantastic

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they can take the doses as they see fit

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story about guys up in space i think

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um let's talk about all the work up

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there a lot of scientific research as

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always on the iss but in particular

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you've got some uh some mission that you

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are probably pretty excited about more

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than any others i know the atv is coming

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i believe tomorrow so can you talk to us

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there and how it's going to benefit us

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you're with me in the u.s laboratory and

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it looks like a pretty quiet environment

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but uh just here to my left we're doing

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some capillary flow research to see how

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we can move fluid around without even

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display it's pretty good stuff it's a

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german experiment going on uh right over

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put a few of the videos on vine where

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we're igniting floating spheres of fire

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car engines but really we're looking at

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cargo vehicle that the european space

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something that we're all really excited

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alloys and using electro

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anything fun on that atv

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bring you back to the local ties here

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since you do have your your family and

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friends here um and we'll broadcast this

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tonight what kind of messages you might

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want to send back home you've got the

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well that's that's a tough one i mean i

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love you all i uh when i look down

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great summers pretty good winters can

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play in the snow and i just i miss it

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all the way around it's it's such a

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great place to grow up and i hope

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someday soon i can get back there with

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that sounds great reid last last

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that you prepare so much for these

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what's the the hardest part what's the

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what surprised me most was i trained

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essentially for two and a half years for

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this mission and and i thought i had

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everything pretty wired in my brain but

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space station and you don't have the

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component of gravity that you always had

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in training and wow it just your it

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rewires your brain almost immediately i

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felt so disorganized so confused so out

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so that was the hardest thing i actually

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it is it's great but wow for the first

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it crushes your head and so that was

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you can just take a 300 pound object and

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it all the way across the us lab with no

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no problem at all so hardest at first

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we're proud of you here back home thanks

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so much for taking the time to talk to

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us and of course we'll uh share your

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comments with uh friends and family

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thanks a lot and enjoy your time up

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excellent i appreciate the time scott

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bye-bye

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