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hi mission control this is megan pringle

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we heard you loud and clear megan this

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is megan pringle from wp

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it is

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good to talk to you

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great to talk to you good morning i have

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so many questions for you tell us what

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yeah that was amazing i had only flown

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on the space shuttle before and um

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taking off on the soyuz rocket was was

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really cool it was a little bit

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different

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but it was it was pretty spectacular a

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lot of g-forces

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a lot of banging when the engines shut

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down and it was definitely a ride that i

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since you've been there and i know it

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hasn't been long but what's been the

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biggest surprise or possibly adjustment

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to you either physically or just

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you know the um

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the thing that i was surprised about was

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how much easier it was this time to

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adjust the space last time was my first

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space flight and this is my second space

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and uh i just adjusted a lot quicker

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there's still a few things your head

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gets stuffy because all the fluid floats

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so there's a little bit of that but for

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the most part when i got here it was

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like riding a bike i remembered

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everything just like i had done a few

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it's so exciting for us to have someone

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do something so incredible and it was so

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much fun to watch reid wiseman so is

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there a little bit of pressure because

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he did so much tweeting and interaction

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with social media is it tough um

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to compete with that are you going to

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try to have some sort of interaction and

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and i guess create a following or at

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well there's no competition i can never

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compete with reid weissman um but reid

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is awesome he's also as you know a

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fellow baltimore native

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actually i was just down on the coop i

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took some unbelievable pictures of a

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sunset we just had over south asia

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so i will be tweeting astro terry is my

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twitter and instagram handle and i'll

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try and send out some pictures the views

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here are just spectacular

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i saw a sunset the first sunset i saw on

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the moon and venus were right next to

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the sun they all sat at the same time

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it was amazing to see the moon kind of

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burble as it went behind the atmosphere

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the views are are not like anything on

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earth so i'll definitely be sharing them

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i think that'll be really exciting for

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people and that's something they're

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you haven't been there long and it seems

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like already you've seen some stunning

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images is there anything that you're

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looking forward to seeing the most or an

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area of earth that you're really excited

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to see what it looks like from a

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months to live here and really get to

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know the earth well um on my first

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flight the way the orbital mechanics

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worked out i was over america at night

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time all the time and so far the last

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america so i'm looking forward to seeing

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baltimore and the rocky mountains and

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you know as much as i can of my own

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i should still be here during the

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preakness yeah it depends on the timing

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of the landing but that's uh i will be

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um we've got a lot of sporting events to

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look forward to butch here my crewmate

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what about um the hometown aspect i know

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area in particular howard county and

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columbia there's any kids that are

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watching from oakland mills high school

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who may be interested in science what

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would you have to say oh my goodness i

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that's like with the football and sort

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of stuff i've been listening to you but

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sports fans and i love that you're

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representing the orioles have you played

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i'm hoping he's running back because i'm

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football and the hockey and the baseball

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exactly well hopefully no rivalries uh

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butch and i are safe it's not like

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mills high school and uh what the what

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talents go ahead and pursue those

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and uh don't don't tell yourself no

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don't let you know go ahead and go for

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do you want to give a shout out to

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anyone in howard county or columbia at

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uh and helena pat uncle tom i got a lot

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of i got a lot of relatives back east

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twitter and i thought it was interesting

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that you mentioned um your last meal

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was shepherd's pie is there anything

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that you're gonna miss the most or

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myself if i were a bachelor so

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fact that terry can't take a shower as

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yeah that must get um

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that must get tough if you are up there

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and your your crewmates are smelling a

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something and come back to the newsroom

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and let us know listen before we go is

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there anything else that you want to add

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i know you said some pretty inspiring

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about kids who are possibly interested

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in science anything else you want to say

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this is an amazing machine this is one

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of our steps as we move out into the

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solar system this is step one

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and it's great to be here with an

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international crew we have an italian

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astronaut and three russian cosmonauts

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enjoying our time with them some of our

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russian friends were just taking

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pictures of me and butch doing our first

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press conference together so the

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international cooperation of the space

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station is is really amazing but looking

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love doing it there's nothing like it

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but looking out at the blackness and you

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see the moon and planets out there

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one of the coolest things of being here

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and station this is houston acr that

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concludes the wbal-tv portion of the

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event please stand by for a voice check

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station this is wkn tv how do you hear

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nashville hello we have you loud and

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hey that is what we like to see captain

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butch wilmore one of our own mount

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juliet native tennessee and tennessee

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tech grad along with captain terry verts

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and of course sporting your pred sweater

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that's what we'd like to see both of you

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you know we do nasa's got a great system

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they can uplink live games and of course

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get taped and they'll send them up in a

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special uh section for our we can watch

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on our computer so yeah we can stay in

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we certainly like to see that all right

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captain butch we want to start with you

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obviously you're a hometown guy uh

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for the first time you took over as

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commander in charge of the iss i know

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that this is something you've worked

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hard for how appreciative are you of

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i can tell you it's uh

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just being here and like right now i'm

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floating um and just just this it's it's

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very very humbling uh to have this

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opportunity because there's so many

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people that would love to do it and love

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it's very humbling and it is uh

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obviously very challenging to finally

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get to the point where you can be here

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so grateful for all the people along the

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way that helped out and trained us all

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of our trainers they're fantastic and

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you say you've been there you're going

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to be there for six months i know your

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first space flight was 11 days so what

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is the big difference when it comes to

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training and actually being up there for

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such a long period of time

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for such a long period

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well one of the main things the space

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station is very large it's about as long

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as a football field and white is a

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football field with numerous systems

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numerous capabilities a lot of science

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that we do up here a lot of payloads so

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as far as the magnitude of the training

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the training started for terry and i

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both about two and a half years ago so

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it's a long training flow because

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there's a lot that we have to you know

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pound into our brains so in that respect

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that's the main thing certainly the

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shuttle flights were were very busy very

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detailed but certainly not as much to

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know as far as the size and the

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different systems of the station so i'd

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i know many of us just can't imagine

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what it is like in space it's very neat

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to see what you guys are able to do

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while we're talking to you not that

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there is a typical day there but what is

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a normal day for you on the space

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well a normal day for me starts with

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usually a flip so i'll do this first

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thing in the morning just because like i

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said just because you can and that's

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always exciting the way to start the day

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and then of course uh we have about two

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and a half hours a day that we're

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scheduled to work out uh with some

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resistive exercise and also aerobic

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training you can kind of see this on the

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side right here this is our space

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bicycle and we also have a treadmill

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that we run on so we do that two and a

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half hours a day every single day just

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about to keep ourselves physically

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conditioned to fight muscle atrophy and

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bone loss those type of things so we've

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come a long way in the past decade of

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learning what we need to do to combat

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those so that's a big part of it and

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obviously the different various tasks

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the science that we do is ongoing

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every single day various different

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science aspects and of course there's

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maintenance as well just like in your

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home your potty breaks well our potty

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breaks too and uh we have to fix that

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and other things and there's also just

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upkeep you know you've got to clean the

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vents and and vacuum and do all those

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type of things that's kind of normal we

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typically do that on saturday so

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the day is very that's probably the best

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part about it is the variety there's

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such a such a variety of things that we

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i know a new crew just joined you up

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there and terry i think you are on that

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crew what is the deep briefing and the

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yes i launched actually yesterday um

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and butch and

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sasha and elena were ready for us we

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opened the hatch

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they were all very excited to see us

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and uh they had a had a good meal for us

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down in the russian segment a lot of

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food which actually we were all starving

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because we hadn't eaten for probably

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eight or ten hours so

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it was really fun

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in the soyuz you're really cramped

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you're sitting like this in this very

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small capsule for about six or eight

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hours like i said and

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so by the time we got here getting into

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the station this big giant open um

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uh area so that was that was fun to all

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of a sudden i'll feel like you're in

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well captain butch uh you are there

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until march and i know you guys get this

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question a lot but what do you miss most

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you know honestly this is such a unique

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place with such unique experiences every

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single day that i can honestly say that

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i really don't miss much i i don't miss

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not having a hamburger because the food

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here is different i don't miss not

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having french fries because the food

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here is different i don't miss not

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having to mow my grass though i love

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mowing my grass because the the variety

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of things here is so very different i'd

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say the one thing i miss i miss my

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church i miss my church family so that's

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one thing that i do miss and other than

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that

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like i said the experience is so

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different there's there's too much to

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well obviously this is your hometown

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news and the people of mount juliet

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nashville all over middle tennessee and

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tennessee are so proud of you what do

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you have to say to the people of mount

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i have to say

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that's god's country every time somebody

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asked me where i'm from i tell them

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that's the first thing i say is god's

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country and that's what i truly believe

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and y'all live in a wonderful place and

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that's what we like to hear hey they are

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playing great right now as well i think

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you're a bald fan as well there's

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another butch in charge over there for

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the big orange what do you think about

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hey you know it's uh they're getting

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going here i know they lost this weekend

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in a close fought match but uh things

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are turning around we got we got high

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all right last question for you guys for

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anybody that is watching this and has

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seen what you guys are doing maybe kids

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that hey one day i want to do this what

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the main thing is i think a lot of

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people have said it and i agree and

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that's uh do what you love

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if you got a passion about something

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pursue it whatever it may be and uh

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ultimately you're looking for a

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happiness in your life and how you can

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support and help others and that's the

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main thing and you never know if you put

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a lot of effort into something where it

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might lead truly so that that'd be the

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all right captain terry virts captain

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barry butch wilmore mount juliet's own

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thank you so much for joining us we are

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really honored to speak to you and we

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are very proud of you captain butch

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super is our pleasure we've had a ball