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station this is houston are you ready

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houston this is station we are ready for

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issa this is mission control houston

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station this is jill the esc

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hello eac i can hear you loud and clear

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good day alex good day we are here esc

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with lots of space enthusiasts and here

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comes the first question from susana

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i can hear you

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and i'd like to ask

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you what does a volcanologist do in

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space or are you the perfect example of

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a successful change of careers and how

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well i guess i did successfully change

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my career as my colleague samantha

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always said it she changed from the

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second best job in the world to the best

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job in the world that's how i see it as

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well but actually

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i do still

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work a little bit in

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as a volcanologist because up here i can

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see volcanoes in a in a completely

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different way than i could see them back

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on earth and now i actually uh see them

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glow at night aetna in italy and then

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stromboli i can see them glow at night

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with the naked eye and take pictures and

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that's actually uh

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a pretty amazing thing that we can i can

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see this from

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all from up here and

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we do have even a small little science

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hi alex my name is kathry and my

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question is what is the maximum period

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of stay in the iss now

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and what alternations should be made to

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either physical or mental well-being in

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order to extend that period or even

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you know that's a very good question

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that we're actually just trying to

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answer ourselves uh because the maximum

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time for people that had stayed in space

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was always around one year and we have

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made tremendous success in actually

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keeping our bodies in better shape now

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we have like training devices that keep

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our muscles actually i just had an

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experiment today where i measured my

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muscle circumference to check if those

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devices are working and actually uh we

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see that we actually build muscle up

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here so that's uh that was one of the

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the big problems in the early times of

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space flight now it shifts more towards

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how long uh can we stay and not get sick

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like in terms of nutrients uh how how do

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our eyes maybe uh change how they work

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in space and the more we look at it the

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the more we see it is amazing that our

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body was actually made for a 1g gravity

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environment but we can live up here

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we we we made sure that we have life

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support systems that can support a

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longer stays in space several years when

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we fly to mars and i do not see any real

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problem in the way there

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research to be done but i think

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are built to to live in space

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even for longer amounts of times

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more missions coming up in the future

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that look at long time stays of around

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and i'm sure there will be uh

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any difference between your training on

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earth and the real procedures on the

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yes i did actually i mean

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it's funny that uh if you uh start

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training on earth like uh for a

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procedure like a change out of a of a

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science wreck that i have here um or

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start getting your all your equipment

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out and then you start working well if

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putting things like if you get

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tools out they're gonna float everywhere

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of all the equipment all the devices

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that you use get them out of the bags

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not prepare me for so at the beginning

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things floating out in different

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directions and some of them i haven't

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that's definitely an adaptation

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my body itself feels the same i still

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my arms my legs everything

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how our body can do that

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float in your sleeping bag and after a

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while you you just don't have the

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perception of touching anything and that

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can lead to the feeling that you would

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the other side but it doesn't work in

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module we have still the the up and down

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perception that we keep on earth i think

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our brains are trained like that because

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earth that we obviously find it up and

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bottle before i would have to look

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modules like our training module the

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handle moments and what you feel would

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team that either or dlr that supports

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this is to stay on top of things so you

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don't have the feeling of fear you don't

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nominal emergency situations so in such

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situations to avoid fear you have to

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that you're always a step ahead in

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because it's really beautiful i'm here

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with like three really good friends uh

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we drove and we laugh every day and uh

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the earth and and this is an amazing

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all in all the the danger to ourselves

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it's much much much more small

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and fragile and tiny that i ever thought

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america and africa at the same time when

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sphere on one side that doesn't affect

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the other side this is this is so clear

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from up here and uh and the the

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atmosphere is is very very thin that's

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so clear from up here and even though i

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knew all this in the way before it is

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still

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amazing to see that and

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well to feel this so

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that's why i don't i don't think i

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should give advice to anybody because

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who would listen to a guy who flew into

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space just just because he flew into

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space my approach to this is actually

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let the people on earth see

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the earth through my eyes and that's why

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i tweet so many uh pictures give my

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impressions what i feel when i see a

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picture

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human from a human point of view and

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convey that perspective down to you guys

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who help tremendously by the way by

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distributing that message and that

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people judge themselves were what the

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planet is that they live on and get that

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perspective to them and i think

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any conclusion that a person makes from

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their own perspective

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is much more

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valuable much stronger than listening to

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hello alex my name is lucas

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thank you for the protest on facebook

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where you also wrote

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that the work record on the iss had been

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broken

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and

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my question is how do you deal with this

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workload and is there any work-life

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yeah we work a lot of course up here uh

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just because we want to make

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most of the time that we have so we have

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about a 12 hour working day and then you

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have to add like several hours of doing

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like administrative work email

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getting organized for the next day so

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there's

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we have per day that we we can do our

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own thing like we could float to the

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cupola have a look outside we can uh

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call our families or write emails to our

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friends that works so that's that's

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already a balance

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and i i feel like uh that's that's

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enough during the week because we don't

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have uh too much too many things to do

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up here anyways uh apart from uh working

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or looking out the window which is a

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good thing and uh i do have one thing a

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week this is my sunday afternoon that i

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keep completely free of everything like

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i don't do any exercise i don't plan any

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work there

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and i just do things that i do for

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myself like uh well writing a letter to

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somebody or or just giving giving a

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friend a call and that's that's my own

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reserved time i don't work out there i

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don't even do do like running on the

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treadmill and that's my

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my way that i found for myself to

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balance

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my work life and

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that works really well and i think

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everybody up here has their own little

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hi alex i'm eduardo and my question is

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what did you bring with you on board the

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international space station so as not to

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you know

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i've been asked that question a lot and

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i did bring things up here like little

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uh things that remind me of my friends

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and

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photos

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but you know all that

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i realize while it is nice to have and

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good to see it is not a substitute

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uh

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it doesn't help me to not miss earth

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anymore

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yeah i mean i don't see

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it as difficult being up here for three

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months now in six months i know that

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that'll time will pass in in no time and

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even the year up here i think humans can

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deal with that we can go to extreme

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places knowing that our home is down

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there and i do see earth

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every time i look out the window i see a

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beautiful earth it doesn't feel like

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we're far away

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but i realize

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that i miss things like running in the

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forest or standing in the rain in the

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summer

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that will never be

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replaced by something that i bring up

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here and that that will be also the

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future of space exploration i don't

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think we humans we if we grew up on

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earth we will

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ever be able to replace that by

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something else this little planet down

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there that's that's our home and we

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we cannot replace it by anything else so

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we always uh want to go back i guess

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well some of us might not but

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we always

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have this strong connection to that

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planet uh whatever we find out there in

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the universe and i think we need to have

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a look out there for many many different

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reasons

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and we might find many new exciting

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worlds but us humans we we like our

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earth and it's not

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it's the only place we know the only

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place in the universe that we can live

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on and

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yeah we should probably take care of

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that that's my that's my understanding

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from

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and my question is

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you got so much impressions of our place

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of

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refuge in space what do you think in

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which kind your life on earth will

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yeah i think many things will change for

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me of course because i'm not in training

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anymore so i'm kind of getting back a

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little bit more control over my own life

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the last three years i traveled around a

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lot of course but in the more general

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thing on how i how i see earth

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maybe i mean i have not come back yet so

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i don't quite know what the difference

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will be but if i if i look back on

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like

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i started flying or or

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parachuting suddenly my view from

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on my on my surroundings went from a 2d

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view to a 3d view

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suddenly when i started flying in

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airplanes i realized oh weather is not a

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local

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it's not a general thing today is a

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rainy day but no it's actually just a

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local thing right it only rains at that

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place and if you fly or travel somewhere

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else it might be fine weather there

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so

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you get a broader perspective on things

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and i think the same will happen uh on

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with me now having circled the earth in

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90 minutes and knowing every corner of

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it from a distance now i mean i can like

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i feel like i can already tell which

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continent which countries we fly over

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just by looking out the window because i

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did that so much

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i think

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uh

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what might change is my perception of

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this planet it i think it got smaller in

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a way and

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i suddenly see that

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many things are more connected

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than than i thought when when i grew up

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like if you grow up in a small town you

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your world around you as a diameter of

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maybe 20 kilometers and then you start

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studying and

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go to a different town and it grows to

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you travel and

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you suddenly your radius is a country or

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a continent but but now i see that earth

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is really just a small little um well

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rock in in the universe and that's all

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we have and i think that changes the

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view of

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of what we what we have out there and

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last question

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hi alex this is constanza from dresden

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well my question refers to the time when

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we are back on earth what will miss most

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when you're back are there any

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yeah i'm pretty sure what i will miss is

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of course the view out the window on

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this earth that is

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so amazing so beautiful

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it is different every single time i look

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out like i've never managed to repeat a

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photo twice

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it's it's different every single time

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those clouds this the lighting

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it's so beautiful and it's like seeing

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an orbital sunrise or a sunset is i get

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like tears in my eyes every single time

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i see it even though i've seen it so

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many times

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and uh that i will miss definitely then

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floating just like

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being able to to hang out

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just park things in the middle of the

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air that's that's actually a really neat

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thing to do like when when i'm busy

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doing something i got really used to

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just putting something here and then oh

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you still have to keep track of course

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about it but

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it's it's nice you can even park like

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fridge sized items like a science rack

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that you take out of a box or something

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you can park them right there that is

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actually a really cool thing to do i

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will miss that

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so i hope i won't drop too many things

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by just trying to park them uh in the

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air

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but uh yeah i

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yeah i think uh i think living in space

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is a fantastic thing i i think everybody

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should have the chance of doing that

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once

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thank you station that concludes the

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event in cologne goodbye

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station this is houston thank you

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cologne all the best

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thank you that concludes our event

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thank you isa and social media

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participants stationed we are now