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station houston are you ready for the

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that's affirmative houston ready for the

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espn radio this is mission control

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houston please call the station for a

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voice check

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several draft picks

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um it's not like station this is espn

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radio how do you hear me

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but in the nfl you can get that

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quarterback or at least keep him upright

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like the raiders in derrick carr if eli

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manny's got time to throw we've seen

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he's won super bowls so it's exciting

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stuff

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all right astronaut

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barry butch wilmore you can see him live

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on espnu he's joining us in the herd

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he's the commander

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of the international space station so

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barry i'm going to start with this

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this is a massive what is the size of

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it's actually quite enormous colin hello

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hello to you and all your listeners by

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the way

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it is it's huge it's the size of at

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least five buses connected end to end

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it's probably just about a football

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field along a football field wide if you

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count the trusses it's it's an enormous

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how fast is it currently going

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uh i checked the speedometer earlier

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colin i think it said 17

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you may want to pump the brakes there

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all right so it's zero gravity

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what does zero gravity do to you

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physically are you tired a lot does it

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make you hungry what does it do to your

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you know you know colin it i don't know

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if it's a zero gravity or the workload

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or what but the metabolism it is

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different up here i mean very different

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um i you know i can eat all that i want

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and i don't gain weight i mean it's

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bliss in that respect

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so the metabolism mine and i think most

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people that come up here it is different

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it does change um

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i know one thing you know specifically

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what it does to me physically you know

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i'm i'm 50 and

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you know i've got wrinkles uh on earth

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you know sagging here and there but in

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space you know you've got a fluid shift

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you don't have gravity pulling the fluid

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to your lower extremities the fluid kind

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of goes around your body and the

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wrinkles disappear and the joint aches

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wow same reason people move to flora so

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how do you sleep how do you float like

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right now you're floating how do you

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yeah i have a little crew quarters that

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i actually sleep in it's it's about the

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size of a large coffin i guess um

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and in that in that crew quarters i can

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push against the wall with my feet and

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like put my back against the wall and

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kind of stabilize myself but i do prefer

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just to float in there and uh

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initially because there's air moving

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initially you bounce very gently against

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the wall but eventually as you float a

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while you sort of stabilize out and you

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do you know if it's night or day where

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you're at i mean if you're traveling at

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how many miles an hour as you said

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you're going around space do you know

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where you're at is it night is it day

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not at all i mean we you know we get 17

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excuse me 16 sunrises and sunsets a day

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and cycling through that day night cycle

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is is beautiful when you look out the

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window the colors as sunrises and the

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sun sets it's just thrilling i mean

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absolutely amazing but we stay on a

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cycle we're gmt time where you know i'm

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on london time basically and uh you know

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we don't always have the opportunity to

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look out the window so we keep the

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lights on during the daytime so it sort

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of keeps our circadian rhythm in check

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and we turn them off at night and that

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that that just keeps us on a normal

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you know colin i've i've been alone up

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here for two weeks because we've got a

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launch coming up on sunday and i got

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some crewmates that'll join me but uh

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the two weeks no not lonely at all it's

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such a unique place colin i mean it's

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it's it's thrilling it's

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it's it's it's there's so much

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difference than normal life that what

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you're used to that uh you know those

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emotions of loneliness and whatnot they

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haven't affected me at all no there's

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too much other things to be you know

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by the way this is the commander of the

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international space station butch

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wilmore barry butch wilmore who's a

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sports fan and we're a fan we're doing

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this live right now

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they are traveling um at a speed i don't

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recall but it would get you several

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tickets down here on earth uh for the

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record did you hear the raiders one last

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night we're not sure how fast you get

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i did uh we do have some live uplinks so

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you know i can watch some live games

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it's a little late for me to watch the

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night games uh so i don't watch those

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live but i get some uplink you know i'm

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a big sec fan i love to watch sec so

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usually i tell them to step up the sec

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games on saturdays and they also uh i

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watch a little texas christian tcu uh

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horn frogs as well i watch those guys

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yeah they've been complaining down here

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about sec bias i'm not sure if there's

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sec bias in space i'll ask that the next

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time you're on the show but how did you

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become an astronaut you don't major in

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astronaut how did you what can you give

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i'll try to make it short i joined the

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navy i had a patriotic tug to do my part

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for my country i'm still active duty i'm

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a captain in the navy um went through

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the wickeds was able to make it to test

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pilot school and it's kind of a wicket

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for at the time but to be selected as a

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shuttle pilot you had to kind of hit

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that wicket and had a you know went to

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school studied hard got an advanced

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degree or two and then made application

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and eventually nasa selected me so

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um you can you control your spinning

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here like if you want to spin can you do

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yeah i always wanted to do a back flip

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calling but on earth i can't but here

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it's sweet

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also something else i wanted to show you

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you know it's basketball season you're

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not wearing we always talk about how

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high can you jump

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i was going to say it's basketball

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season you're concerned about how high

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you can jumping on earth i've got about

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and sorry your radio listeners can't see

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wow you're like dominant i'm the king of

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how come you're not wearing shoes what's

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well you know that's something colin the

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bottom of my feet everybody's got

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calluses on their feet and i've only

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been here two months and my calluses on

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the bottom of my feet are completely

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gone because i don't walk on them

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and now because you know these hand

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rails you see these handrails that i'm

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holding now and we always grab it with

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our feet i'm actually getting callouses

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on the tops of my feet now because i

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always grabbing the handrails with my

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airlines make sure they don't show

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certain movies on planes like like

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you're not going to watch gravity

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tonight or alien or anything like that

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you're absolutely right i will not be

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well i appreciate it we're big fans uh

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this has been an absolute pleasure for

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me astronaut navy captain barry butch

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wilmore who uh flew the space shuttle

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atlantis piloted that we really

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appreciate you stopping by this has been

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an absolute pleasure for me and our

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oh it's been a huge pleasure for me

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colin thanks for thanks for doing this

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this has been great hello to all your

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all right there you go that is uh i i

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station this is houston acr that

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thank you espn radio station we will