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station this is houston are you ready

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that's affirmative we are ready

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cnn international this is mission

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control houston please call station for

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listen to the internet international how

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cnn we got you loud and clear on the

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fantastic lovely to meet you i'm robin

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kerner i'm coming to you from the cnn

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center in atlanta georgia just wanted to

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know where you are right now where are

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uh you know when we last checked we were

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passing australia i'm not sure we are

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right at this very moment but uh we're

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somewhere what's it like up there what

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is it like to feel

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spaceless in the space must be an

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it is truly incredible robin i mean it

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doesn't get old i've been up here two

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and a half almost three months and every

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morning i wake up i float down the

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passageway and i honestly think is this

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really happening it does not get old

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you're going to be doing some space

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walks one of you has done a space walk

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already you've got a few more lined up

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in the in the coming weeks i mean what

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again it's it's fantastic i mean when

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you get outside there's no atmosphere to

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obstruct any light there's no dust

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particles it's absolutely clear i spit

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shine my visor before i went out because

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i knew this and it is an amazing view

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you know 360 degrees as you turn your

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head about 160 degrees that you can see

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the beauty of the earth in all the

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magnificent colors it is absolutely

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but regrettably there's minimal time for

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98 of the time we're outside we're

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actually very very busy accomplishing

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are you nervous about going on your

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well i'm not nervous at all we've had a

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lot of great training from the folks on

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the ground in houston and butch is going

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to be the spacewalk lead on that one so

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to make sure that we get all the work

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you've been posting photographs to

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twitter it's an amazing connection with

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you guys up there i mean you seem to

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have a fondness for clouds i mean

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around the earth the smallest things

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look so beautiful isn't it i'm sure i'm

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it does we just passed out the southern

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tip of south america and we're as close

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in antarctica and i got a chance to see

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the continent for the first time but the

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clouds in the southern hemisphere

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especially the southern ocean especially

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are always amazing

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clouds because just this morning i sent

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a picture down that had a

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the peak of a volcano at the galapagos

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items peeking above the clouds i think

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it'll be an interesting thing people may

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okay we'll go and check on it when we

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get off air but i mean you also got to

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see the devastation perhaps or the power

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of mother nature amazing photographs

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yeah that that was uh it was amazing to

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see and when we were in the cupola

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it's a dangerous storm um i know that

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florida and i knew that was a pretty

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dangerous storm unfortunately people

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lost their lives here in the philippines

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um to see it at night was especially

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week and you could see

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because it doesn't really exist on earth

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zero g flights where they push over for

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about 20 seconds of weightlessness but

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here it never ends and your body adapts

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to it which has been a lot of fun to see

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experience how your body learns how to

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walk and move around in space it's kind

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weightlessness and this time of year is

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it can be on the floor so that's very

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yeah i'm sure it is it looks very handy

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some serious questions though i mean

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political geopolitical tension between

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russia and the west and u.s how do you

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issues that are happening on the ground

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speaking russian and and uh we get along

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heavily on the russian space program you

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russians do also as do the europeans the

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japanese and the canadians so this truly

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deep space exploration uh that's really

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what we're about at nasa the space

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stepping stone towards moving humans out

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well have a wonderful christmas up there

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super merry christmas to all y'all thank

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navy times we catch you loud and clear

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welcome aboard i got another camera hey

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thank you so much gentlemen uh and happy

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and happy holidays

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happy holidays to you as well

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great uh captain wilmore since i'm a

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international space station did you have

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career which is now better than 20 years

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anything so it's it's a it's an honor

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it's a privilege to to be the guy they

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call commander of the international

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space station and i'm i'm grateful for

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the opportunity

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well captain wilmore what are your

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the international space station how long

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just like the native it's good order and

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motivated very high energy they want to

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do their job and they want to perform it

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well and as the guy that's in command

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different than living on earth and just

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adapting to the environment and you know

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you have to think of every single thing

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something on the table and it's there if

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you let go of something it's going to be

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gone and you have to train yourself and

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every single step of everything you do

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yes sir uh to colonel verts what

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well uh every week there it seems to be

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a different themed week last week butch

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and i worked on the carbon dioxide

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removal equipment it was a big giant

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project that uh luckily we were able to

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repair this week he and samantha are

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another one of our crewmates are working

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on my spacesuit so i've been i've been

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down there keeping an eye to make sure

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they're doing a good job on it because

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i'm about to go out in the space in that

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thing next month

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but that's kind of the theme of this

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week for them for me it's human research

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the last two days have been a lot of

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tests on me for my eye we've done

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ultrasounds

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a machine called an oct scanner

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another camera an infrared camera that's

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been looking into my eye we're trying to

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study the effects of space

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on eye

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health and try and learn how to maybe

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improve eye health on earth and also

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here in space for us astronauts

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oh it's interesting uh for both of you

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it's obviously been an exciting week in

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uh space exploration with the launch of

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the orion aircraft uh excuse me the

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space capsule what does this new capsule

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mean for the space program and are

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either of you looking to hitch a ride on

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shotgun

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i think we both love to fly on orion

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orion's a very important a very

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important part of uh

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the the future of our space program it's

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a it's not the entire program but it's

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an important part of it because that's

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the capsule that

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allows people to leave earth and come

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back to earth

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at very high speeds right now we're

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going to 17 000 miles an hour in earth

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orbit but when you're coming back from

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the moon or mars or other places in the

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solar system you'd be going over 25 000

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which is a lot higher and you need a lot

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sturdier capsule for that so orion is

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the part of the system that's going to

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allow us to get

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there and back and um so it's a it was a

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big day it was very good news for

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america and for nasa that that it worked

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as well as it did

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yes sir

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the

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i hear you guys have a 3d printer up

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there what are you using it for and uh

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what does it add to the mission up there

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well actually we are we're just this is

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just taking baby steps we're just

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getting started he just arrived on the

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last cargo vehicle that came up we just

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installed it a couple about three weeks

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ago and we're just starting to print

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objects out and uh you know you've got

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to walk before you run and we're in the

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we're in the walking stage right now

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learning about the aspects of the

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weightless environment what it does to

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this type of device and we've learned a

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great deal as a matter of fact i've got

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in my hand here a little jar that was

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printed just a day before yesterday and

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it's printed in two separate pieces they

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printed at the same time two separate

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pieces and it actually just a little jar

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and it actually screws together and

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works the lid goes on the jar and it's a

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it's a perfect perfect fit so it's

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amazing the things you can do and

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imagine imagine if this was metal which

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which we hope to maybe do one day we can

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make parts we can make

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tools to install parts and so the

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capabilities and the possibilities are

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absolutely endless with this technology

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yes sir

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both of you like your distinguished

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predecessors are test pilots what

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qualities do service members generally

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and test pilots specifically bring to

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well that's an interesting question i've

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never really pondered that i think you

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know and and and the test work you have

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to be disciplined uh you you plan before

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you fly a test you execute your plan you

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don't deviate from that plan and i think

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space flight is very very similar like

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like terry said we're working on a space

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suit we briefed our plan we got with the

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guys on the ground that went through

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those procedures and developed the

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procedures and we briefed together and

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we are going by the plan there are some

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deviations we have to take along the way

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because that's where the where the the

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details lead us but we are tied together

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and we're disciplined in our approach

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we're disciplining our techniques to

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accomplish the tasks and the goals that

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are set before us and i think there's a

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that's where the primary similarities

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are

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roger

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um

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so for uh either or both of you what

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advice would you give to service members

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or troops that were interested in

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um

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it takes a lot of effort a lot of

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discipline like i said and if you've got

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a dream something you want to do that

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you desire to do whatever it is

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progress down that road you know all my

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dreams have not come true the things so

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many things that i've desired to do in

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my life didn't happen but i learned a

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great deal and the journey is what's

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been thrilling the goal's not always the

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great thing now being here obviously

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it's it's special it's terrific but the

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journey has been even better so i would

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say enjoy the journey and while i'm

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talking to about the troops i would like

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to to say that uh

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there's many people

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in the navy other all our other forces

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around the globe right now many are

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separated from their families and i want

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to thank them for their sacrifice and i

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want them to know that what they are

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doing is worth it because freedom is

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worth the sacrifices you make so thank

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you to each and every one of you

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yes sir um

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and uh talk to me a little bit about

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where you see the future of space flight

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going uh obviously there's the orion

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capsule and and uh there's been some

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increasing uh commercial participation

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in space flight could you talk a little

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bit about where you see this going and

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and the sort of the synergy that's

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created between the private and public

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sector in space

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yes i think

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like i was saying before i think the

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space station is a great first step as

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we move out into the solar system

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using the new commercial model that

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we've used for

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cargo delivery to the space station and

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hopefully for crew delivery here in a

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few years

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that can we hope reduce the cost of uh

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getting to space which of course has

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been pretty high in the past and by

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reducing that cost hopefully we can impr

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increase the amount of access that we

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have but in the long term i think mars

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is really the place that everybody

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acknowledges that we need to go

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uh it's a planet very similar to earth

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it had had a history somewhat similar to

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earth there's water there there's a thin

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atmosphere there

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and it's probably the place in the solar

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system that's

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most able to be inhabited by humans

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eventually so

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the work we're doing now is really in

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the long term is going to help us get to

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mars i think

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thank you there's uh been increasing

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tensions here on earth between the u.s

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and russian militaries and i'm wondering

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if any of that has manifested itself up

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i can tell you throughout our training

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in my three months on board absolutely

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none at all if it wasn't for the news i

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would not know there were any tensions

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whatsoever because in the jobs that we

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do day to day day in day out the russian

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trainers that we had when we were in

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star city russia training prior to

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launch

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there was no tension whatsoever no

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discussion about it and then very kind

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very cordial those people are passionate

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about their work passionate about

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training us for what we're doing now so

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you'd never know anything about it

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and captain wilmore last questions to

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you uh what's more stressful landing on

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an aircraft carrier or docking with the

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there is very little very few things in

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life

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that are more stressful than landing on

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an aircraft carrier at night in bad

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weather actually there's nothing more

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stressful that that's the coup de gras

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that's the top of the list

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well thank you gentlemen for taking the

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time out and uh good luck on your

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mission and thanks for joining us

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and thank you and uh hello to all your

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lessons and merry christmas

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the event thank you

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thank you cnn international and the navy