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station this is houston are you ready

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space station is ready ready for the

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wjz tv this is mission control houston

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station this is wjz tv do you hear me

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i got you loud and clear all right i

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don't hear him

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i do not i heard everything else from

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houston though

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let me give you one more try can you

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station please stand by one moment the

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station is working out some internal

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your configuration is good onboard iss

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oh i hear

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station this is wjz tv do you hear me

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you hear me i do hear you loud and clear

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reid we're having audio issues i do not

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come on

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gingerbread so what do you do

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i uh

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i coordinate volunteers for a non-profit

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applause it is

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you have a nice green shirt on can you

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hear me

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you notice it says treasure

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i hear you loud and clear i hear you

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keep the cd with its treasure we got you

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reed i have you now

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we have technical issues when we're

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trying to go to west from west baltimore

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so this isn't so bad for the space let's

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find out hold this one yes sir okay

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you could have won a diamond and ruby

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necklace this dazzling necklace features

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over one and a half carats of sparkling

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okay reed

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this is mary bubala from wjz tv in

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baltimore i'm so excited to talk to you

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again where are you where's the iss

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i don't know i haven't looked outside in

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a little while unfortunately we've been

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busy working so i don't even know where

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i get that no problem we continue to

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love the pictures that you keep tweeting

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after my first interview with you

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many many people asked me

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how quickly does reed's tweet get to

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well so first uh my crewmates are just

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yelling that we we see the beautiful

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australia below us uh which is a great

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view out the window it's all the desert

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in australia is so red and so rich up

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against the ocean it's fantastic

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but to answer the question you just

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asked how long does a tweet take to get

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out on twitter from the space station

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and generally it takes really only about

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five to ten minutes i just have to email

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it down to nasa and they turn it right

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around onto my twitter account and out

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it goes so generally those are pretty

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how is life so far in microgravity how

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today is a special day for three members

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of the crew myself my german crewmate

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and my russian commander this is our

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halfway day and we're holding up

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absolutely great i'd say the first month

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was a little rocky at times but

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really enjoying weightlessness and you

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know one day at a time but it's going

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do you keep track of

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well in a little bit of a way we do i

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keep track of the weekends because uh

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saturday is a limited work day and

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family so we always know when it's

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saturday and sunday but other than that

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i gotcha after seeing so many sites from

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where do you want to visit when you come

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i want to go to baltimore that's too

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easy of a question

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no there are so many amazing volcanoes

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and islands out there that are just in

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the middle of the ocean i would love to

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go see some of these places the bahamas

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is incredible

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all of australia africa the whole

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world's beautiful i want to go

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everywhere so

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i can't wait to get home and do some

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we were disappointed to hear that your

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space walks have been delayed what's

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going on why

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well it's it's a pretty minor issue but

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uh like everything we do up here safety

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is paramount so we have a small issue

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with our batteries and it's a very tiny

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chance that we could go out on a

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spacewalk and lose our power system to

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the spacesuit which wouldn't be life or

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death it would just mean we'd have to

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terminate our spacewalk early and come

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inside which it could leave some work

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unfinished out there so we're going to

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wait we're going to get new batteries up

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here hopefully in just a few weeks and

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then if all goes well in october we'll

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knock out one or two spacewalks and

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that'll be fantastic and if we don't do

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it in october then we'll hand them off

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to the next crew and they'll get to do

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i'm going to rattle off a few viewer

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questions because our viewers have just

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kept

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in touch with your space flight so much

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for the first question is william murray

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of baltimore asked what is the most

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difficult and the easiest thing about

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well i'd say the answer to both of those

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questions is the lack of gravity we're

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basically in microgravity essentially

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weightless up here at all times and so

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that it makes getting around easy it

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also makes working extremely hard when

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you open up just a package of screws to

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swap out a part and you have to put

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every screw on either duct tape or

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somehow velcro it down because as soon

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as you open up any package everything's

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just floating around and it's so easy to

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lose things i'd say so that's really my

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answer to both things but living in

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all right a deep question for you reid

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from joel richmond of baltimore he asks

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when you gaze out into the solar system

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where does your mind wander is there a

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sense of spirituality a feeling of being

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closer to god or is there a sense that

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what you see is so vast that intuitively

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you believe humankind is not alone and

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a great question and it's something that

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i'll ponder for the rest of my life

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because i think that's what humans do uh

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the other day on i think it was saturday

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or sunday we turned out all the lights

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and i just hung out in our in our cupola

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which has a bunch of windows and when

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your eyes adjust to the darkness and you

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look out

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really when you're behind the earth so

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it's totally black the only thing you

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can see is stars and there are so many

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it's better than any mountain i've ever

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been on it's better than being on a ship

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in the middle of the ocean there are so

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many thousands of stars out there there

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is no way that we are alone maybe

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there's not people living on other

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planets like we are but maybe there is

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but there is absolute life is so amazing

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and a lighter question for you reid

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frank schomberg of essex asks do you get

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to watch your beloved ravens or first

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so i i haven't caught the ravens yet

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we've been watching a little bit of

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preseason football but it hasn't lined

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up but uh i major league baseball has

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been great and i am getting uh little

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five minute highlights of every orioles

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game up here i think we're seven and a

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half games up right now so life is great

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i got my earl's jersey back there in my

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in my bedroom and i pull it out every

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and a nelson cruz home run may be

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whizzing past the iss try to take a

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picture of it if you can

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and reid we are almost out of time any

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shout outs to your family here in

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all right you know my mom and dad are

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probably watching we're always watching

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wjz so uh mom hi how you doing uh it's

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great to talk to you the other day on

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the phone and uh keep taking good care

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of dad and uh just all my friends up

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there it's a great place have some

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maryland blue crabs for me and a nice

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fresh piece of uh eastern shore corn and

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that's the man we i miss those stuff uh

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those things big time so i'd love to be

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reed thank you so much it was so

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phenomenal to connect with you again we

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all love you here in baltimore be safe

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we're going to watch your every move and

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i can't wait to come visit all right

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take care it's great talking to you