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Okay, here we are at the back of the ATV.

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We're at the very back end of the space station.

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We're going 18,000 miles an hour in this direction,
so I'm going to kick off and we'll do a quick

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fly through of the staff at the International
Space Station.

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We'll pass some fun things on the way.

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Dinner table again.

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Got Max!

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Ahh!

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[Laughter] Very difficult to squeeze throughout
here, especially with Max's here.

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And now we're going through the FGB.

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It looks like we got a nice, nice flight path
here.

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Should be able to make it.

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Alright, down in the node 1, station's going
to open up!

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Butch, go high!

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Foot tag, quick aileron roll, through the
lab, into the ball form.

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A little spin into node 2, over Alex's crew
porters, and here we are at the very front

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end of the International Space Station.

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Still going 18,000 miles an hour.

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Now.

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Eli Richardson; ok he asks, "Do they plan
to deorbit Space Station?"

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Yeah, what are you going to do about that?

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Tell him.

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They're going to deorbit Space Station at
the end of its life whenever that is.

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And in concept, we can keep up flying for
a long, long time.

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We have airplanes that were designed and built
in the mid-1950s...

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The T-38s that we...

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The T-38s that we fly, yeah.

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late 1950s, early 1960s.

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They were designed in the 1950s, built in
the 1960s and you just keep rebuilding the

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airframe, rebuilding the engines, upgrading
the avionics; you could fly these things basically

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till you run out of gas.

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In concept we could do that with Station and
we could keep the Station running for as long

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as we like basically up until we reach the
endpoint of the structural elements on Station.

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And when that time does come, we will have
to deorbit it.

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Well we're going at least until 2024.

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Yeah, we're going to 2024.

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Ok, so like with Hubble what we did on our
mission is we put a docking ring on the bottom

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of the telescope.

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Yeah.

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Because we want to ensure a guided entry.

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When the thing is done, we're going to say
maybe 20-30 years from now.

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The science may be done; hopefully we have
a lot more science with Hubble but even if

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the science stops, the spaceship can still
continue to orbit, right...

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Yeah, yeah.

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just by orbital mechanics; they're just going
to come in.

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So we have a docking ring on the bottom of
Hubble for a rocket motor -- you know one

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of them has to be there, it could be an automated
thing -- dock with it and guide it so it doesn't

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hit anything on the way down.

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So do they have anything like that for Space
Station because that's a big thing?

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Yeah, yeah.

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So when it deorbits, it's going to be a controlled
deorbit I would think?

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It will be a controlled deorbit.

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We'll use a Russian progress vehicle and instead
of reboosting Station, you'll point the rocket

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thrusters the other way...

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To slow down.

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You'll slow down...

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It's like putting the brakes on when you're
going to come in.

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...and then the atmospheric drag will take
it in.

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And they'll probably...so they'll probably
do that so that the major part of reentry

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is over the ocean?

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Yeah, probably the Pacific.

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It'll probably shoot for the Pasific

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The Pacific is a really big ocean.

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Yeah.

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That would be the right place to put it so
in case anything survives coming in.

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Yeah.

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So, this is the

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Nile coming up right?

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This is Nile.

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This is the, green one.

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So, you got a great shot of the Nile.

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It's very clear over...

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Beautiful day today.

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So, there we got, we got coming up on the,
the Red Sea.

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Yeah, this is the Red Sea.

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And that's Suez Canal over there.

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You can probably point that.

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Oh yeah.

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Yeah.

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There you go.

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So, Red Sea and just.

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Suez Canal.

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Very thin as you can see there.

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We're passing just across the southern coast
of Ireland into the Bristol Channel and then

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east to right over London.

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It's supposed to be pretty cloudy, so the
channel may be clear, and London itself might

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be clear, so we'll see.

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Here's the Strait of Dover.

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You can see all the run off.

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Let's go overhead.

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It's coming in view.

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And see London is in that, see that area right
there kind of.

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Where that bay is?

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The bay is, yeah.

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That's London.

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Let's see if we can actually see anything
in London.

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There it is.

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So, we're almost directly overhead.

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Yeah.

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Finally catching a break through, from the
rain.

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Look closely.

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See Sicily and Italy, coming over the horizon.

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Give you a close -- zoom in on the volcano.

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Beautiful; and then the easily recognizable
boot of Italy coming into view.

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Looks quite a bit different than it does on
maps from up here but there it is.

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There's the boot of Italy.

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I've been to Italy just one time but I plan
on going back there soon.

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My family emigrated from Italy about a hundred
years ago, my grandparents and great grandparents.

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Hang off our left side, we're going to be
losing it behind the structure pretty soon.

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There's Greece, had a good friend from Greece,
growing up; excellent food.

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And most of Europe has excellent food.

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Yep, that'll be the Bay Area and then if you
come just, San Francisco is right of trajectory

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-- lots of trajectory.

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Has a great shot of San Francisco.

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So interesting enough, right there is Edwards
Air Force Base; that's another place where

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I lived.

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You can see here, those big, dry lakebeds;
that's also where Palmdale and Lancaster are

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which, where the space shuttle was built.

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Built down there.

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Yeah.

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Okay, that should be Houston.

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Should give them the camera.

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Looks like a beautiful day.

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I just talked to my wife at home, just 15
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She said the weather's beautiful down there.

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There it is, Houston, Texas.

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Chicago?

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Yeah, we got the bottom of Lake Michigan.

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Did you get it?

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Here's Chicago, kind of swinging off to our
left.

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All right, so you got -- there's Long Island.

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There's New York City, looks a little snowy
down there.

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It does look snowy, looks like a lot of snow
down there.

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Nice, clear day, probably very cold.

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Long Island and there's Connecticut, my home
state, my hometown of Waterbury.

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That little, that?

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It's not even -- you can't even see it it's
so small.

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Let's give New York City one more close-up
of New York City.

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New York, are you ready for your close-up
from the International Space Station?

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Looking good.

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Enjoy your Friday night.

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Friday night in New York.

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It's the end of January, and soon I'll be
getting ready to leave.

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I came up here last September, six weeks before
Rich and Koichi.

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So my time is nearly up.

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It's going to be good to see my wife, Julie,
and the boys -- Ryan and Lucas.

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We are exactly six weeks away from when Mike
will be landing here back in Houston, not

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that I'm counting.

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Starting to become real Mike's going to be
home soon.

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So pretty excited about that.

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I can't believe it's almost here.

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Before launch I coached the men Lacrosse and
hockey.

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Can you see?

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Yep, sure can.

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Where's Lucas playing now?

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I can't tell.

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He's center.

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He's racing down Mike right now.

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Fortunately, we have a video link.

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So I've been able to keep track of their games
and be there in spirit if not in person.

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Oh, no.

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That's all right.

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Keep fighting back.

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It was really fun because Mike's son had to
to take a penalty shot and actually scored.

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So that was fun for Mike to see.

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It was really exciting for him.

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He feels a little bit more connected to the
kids.

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It's hard.

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I know he misses that stuff a lot.

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Oh, yeah.

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About that time.

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Here we go.

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We're not sure if we're going to make it out
today, but looks like we're a go.

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We're going to rent down your place real soon.

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Don't worry about it.

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Yeah?

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I cleaned it, so it should be ready to go.

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You getting excited, Greg?

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I'm getting excited.

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Mike Hopkins, NASA astronaut, giving a quick
wave farewell there.

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And physical separation confirmed.

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Okay.

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Thanks, Oleg.

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Thanks for getting me home.

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That’s so wild.

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Kinda push it in.

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Three.

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Two.

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One.

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Oh no!

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Made it out the other side.

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…Little too hard

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That is wild.

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I think it’s going to stay in now…

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Yeah, yeah got to get it from going back down
now.

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Ha ha, you are being assimilated by this…

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Pull out quickly, ah dude!

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It’s just gonna get worse.

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This is amazing!

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Look at that, whoa!

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Holy Smokes, oh my gosh!

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Absolutely fascinating!

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Let's see another one.

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Oh, here's one from Peter Manley.

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"Would a balloon pop in space?"

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So this is interesting because if you had...a
balloon would pop if you blow it enough.

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Well a balloon will pop inside the Station...

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Right.

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because I've done that, right, because I brought
some balloons for my kid's birthday celebration

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and...

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I didn't know that.

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I accidently popped one and they go "BANG!"

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Did you get in trouble for it?

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Did your kids complain about that?

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Did they know about it [laughs]?

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No, they didn't see it.

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They didn't know about it.

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But anyway, so...

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Here's dad doing his best to have a birthday
party in space and by mistake one balloon

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goes and...

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Yeah.

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it ruined the whole party.

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Yeah.

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Oh, but it's neat to blow a balloon up and
then let go of it and it goes [inaudible sound]...

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Oh, cool.

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Yeah.

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But that's all your...that's propulsion there.

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Yeah.

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It behaves differently than what you have
on the ground?

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Yeah because it doesn't have the effects of
gravity.

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So the only thing that's...

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It doesn't go in a parabolic arch...

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So it just...?

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it just goes and then it just stops.

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That's great!

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So you know it doesn't fall to the ground?

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Yeah, it doesn't fall to the ground.

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Alright, cool.

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But in the vacuum of space, like out of sight.

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I'm wondering yeah if that's what he means
that because you have less...you have less

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pressure because it will expand.

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Yeah, well I think what will happen would
be it would just keeping expanding and expanding

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and expanding and then it would rupture on
its own.

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Right.

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I think similar to like a bag of potato chips
in an airplane.

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Yeah.

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When you go up on an airplane, you're at less
pressure and the bag becomes inflated.

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Yeah, yeah.

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I wonder how...how quick do you think it would
happen?

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I think it would happen pretty quick.

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I think it will happen real quick.

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Yeah, you would get an airlock.