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station mrs houston are you ready for

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absolutely we are ready

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wbal radio this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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read you loud and clear how do you hear

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hello there from baltimore maryland this

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is phil jacobski from wbal radio how are

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well they're going great we have been

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here for a month now we uh launched just

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over four weeks ago me samantha and

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anton we joined our crewmates butch

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elena and sasha and we're having a great

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time getting a lot of work done up here

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what are some of the things that you are

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well it seems like every day we do about

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10 different things there's a lot of

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science that we do

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a lot of different types of science

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material science biology

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uh combustion science the station's

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involved in some pretty cool astronomy

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experiments there's a lot of maintenance

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that goes on um that we have to work on

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different equipment butch and i worked

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on a thing called sidro which is a

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carbon dioxide removal a couple weeks

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we're getting ready for some space walks

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getting the spacesuits ready for some

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spacewalks that are coming up in about

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another month or two

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and uh of course trying to stay in shape

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there's a lot of exercise that goes on

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too so it's it's a pretty full day every

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we understand that nasa for the first

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time emailed you a wrench as part of a

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3d printer can you explain what that was

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like and what are you going to use that

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yeah it's a pretty exciting when you

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think about the possibilities of being

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able to email like you said a file that

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will go into a printer and we'll print

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out a tool that we can use to fix and

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implement or maybe you know in space

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things get away from you there's you

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know it floats and things disappear so

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to replace a tool that you lost so that

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was a small wrench it's a prototype we'd

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love to use it would love to but of

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course we have to pack it up and send it

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back to earth so they can analyze it and

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check it out so they're not going to let

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us use it regrettably

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can you tell us something about and this

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is for either one of you what a surprise

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you about the experience of being in

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space were you totally prepared for

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that's a great question um for both

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butch and i this is our second flight on

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our first flight we flew on the space

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shuttle as pilots and now here we are on

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a six month long long duration mission

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and i think the thing for me that i've

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noticed over the last week or two is how

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i'm getting even more adapted and more

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able to fly and float and do things in

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space on the shuttle flight it was only

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two weeks long and there was a steep

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learning curve and that had not peaked

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out and i'm still learning the basics of

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how to fly and and i can already tell

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that i'm getting better than i did on

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terry we're your hometown station you're

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from uh maryland talk to us about who

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you want to say hello to especially for

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christmas and what's it going to be like

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that's a great question my family's all

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back there my mom and a stepdad are

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actually down in texas for christmas

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without with my family there but i have

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to say hi to my aunts and uncles and um

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and helen and aunt pat my cousin kristen

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she just had a new uh a new baby little

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cameron and uh landon and

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man i got all kinds of relatives back

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there but i do miss maryland i've been

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but it's been cloudy every time we fly

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days i want to get a good shot

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and rooting for the ravens man they had

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a rough uh rough game this last weekend

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were you able to watch the game

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we can watch bits and pieces of it um

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whenever we're in the right satellite

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coverage they can uplink us the game

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live uh so we can see bits and pieces

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watch the air force academy uh

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commander-in-chief trophy winners i was

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able to watch them play the uh win their

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bowl game so but again only only little

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bits and pieces but it's pretty amazing

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the um the support that they give us

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being able to watch live sporting events

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what are you missing about marilyn and

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how are you going to spend christmas in

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that's easy sweet sweet corn and crabs

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and christmas is going to be good i

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think butch and i are going to we'll do

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a little christmas eve service up here

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and and uh butch got uh stockings for us

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all and uh i've got some presents and so

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um irradiated turkey and dehydrated

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should be a good christmas day and

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actually we'll get to celebrate it

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in 16 times because we get 16 sunrises

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every day here so we'll have christmas

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morning 16 times on the 25th

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russian so we'll have it again a few

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you talked earlier about the experiments

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you have been conducting up there and

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this is for either one of you anything

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surprise you as of now and

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uh what are you most looking forward to

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obviously the space walk will be pretty

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yeah the space walk space walks plural

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we learn the basics of physics and

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inertia and that kind of thing but um

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spins fine but if you spin it in one

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something you just can't do on earth uh

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we can see it and for real so that's it

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i am looking forward to spending more

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time looking out the window i've been

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i just haven't spent any time

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and there's just lots and lots and lots

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window is is probably by far the best

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tens and tens and tens of uh big like

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professional cameras the kind you see at

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the football games we've got camcorders

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work they're all digital of course and

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some things don't work but cameras do

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i sent an email to our food folks

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yesterday telling them how good it is

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and it's it's way better than anything i

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bachelor that's for sure but it's a good

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variety they got different kinds of

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meats and vegetables and desserts and

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maryland crabs and some corn when you

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that's for sure but it's not bad

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watermelon i have time i have time for

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one more question i believe they're

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telling me you talked about looking out

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the window that that view is something

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you just can't seem to absorb enough

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it's not and i wish i could

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i just wish everybody could see it

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because i you know i had seen pictures

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from space my whole life since i was a

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kid i've been looking at books and

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justice um the one thing i've noticed is

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shades of blue especially

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the oxygen in our atmosphere and in the

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really makes things blue on earth and

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that's a really small part if you look

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black in all directions and so it's

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the heavens looking down on creation

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it's an amazing thing and you just can't

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are you hoping for one more trip to

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uh for sure yeah you know i'd love to go

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to the moon is what i would really love

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to do but we'll see how that works out

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we just had our launch of the orion

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uh one piece of the puzzle that we're

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system so that was that was pretty

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exciting a couple weeks ago we actually

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watched that live from our from our

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dining room area that was that was kind

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of neat to see that from space

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all right air force colonel terry verts

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who of course is from columbia

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in our area and crew member commander

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butch wilmore thanks for joining us here

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on wbal from the international space

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station 205 miles above the earth thanks

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thanks merry christmas to everybody down

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there in maryland and go orioles and go

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the wbal radio portion of the

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event please stand by for a voice check

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check in all right station this is cbs

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we hear you loud and clear how do you

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we hear you great and you guys look

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yeah understood

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keep the wall clear all right we're

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here we go

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three two

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we recently showed you new satellite

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images from nasa showing how bright the

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holiday lights are in cities across the

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country it is a familiar site for two

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astronauts who will spend christmas

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aboard the international space station

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the mission commander captain barry

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wilmore and flight engineer colonel

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terry verts joining us now from orbit

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well thanks for floating with us this

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well our pleasure we're doing great uh

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having a great time doing a lot of

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things up here getting ready for the

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holidays spending it together of course

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we'll be separating from our families

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but we've got each other and we've got

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some plans for some gift exchanges and

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such and just celebrate it much like we

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now i see some elf shoes on your feet

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and i think i see what looks like a

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christmas tree what else are you guys

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well we've got some stockings butch got

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us each each crew member is stocking

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it's down in the u.s lab

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uh we have some santa hats and some

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other gear that we've got stored away

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right over there in the other module so

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uh we've got you know many we got some

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turkey and mashed potatoes in the in the

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kitchen so we got

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yeah i like that sort of upside down

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christmas tree look that's a new thing i

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gotta try that at home um you guys you

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guys both have kids how do you stay in

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you know nasa is great they they afford

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us the opportunity to do video links

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once a week so we get to stay in touch

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that way and it's fantastic to see them

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and and you know my my daughters are

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seven and ten so actually see them

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changes and lose teeth and whatnot from

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here so it's very unique and it's a very

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very uh good thing that nasa does so

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i can't imagine the story she gets to

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tell at school in terms of where her dad

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is for the holidays but we want to ask

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you about the actual mission itself why

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well uh we're on a six-month mission

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here in in earth orbit and the primary

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job is to get research done the space

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station is a national laboratory and

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there's lots of different science from

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all the different disciplines biology

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physics material science combustion

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science as even astronomy

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and so

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on a daily basis we're doing different

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kind of experiments we're setting them

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up taking them down making sure that the

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that they're maintained and along those

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lines we also have to maintain a station

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it's a million pound vehicle

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very very very complicated lots of uh

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equipment to keep running and so a big

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part of our job is to keep it running

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which occasionally requires spacewalks

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and butch and i have three scheduled

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spacewalks in february

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uh again to keep the station maintained

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properly and also to get it ready for uh

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future american capsules that will be

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bringing crews here in the coming years

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so it's a busy job

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and on top of all that we need to keep

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ourselves in shape to counteract the

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effects of weightlessness so

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it's definitely a full-time job and it's

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which you guys made some news last week

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when you you printed a 3d wrench from a

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design emailed to you from earth

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what kind of impact are things like that

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well it could actually re

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change everything i mean you may have a

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part that fails that you don't have on

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board and the

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opportunity to print small parts and

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install them and even and even print out

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the special tools that you could use to

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install those parts so the you know the

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the possibilities are truly endless with

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what we can do as this technology goes

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forward we're just doing baby steps now

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it's just the start and you know printed

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out a wrench last week as you mentioned

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and uh it's it's like i said just

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getting going so it's it's the the

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terry i want to ask you about these

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amazing images we've seen on twitter

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images of sort of the earth from clearly

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an amazing viewpoint when you take each

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of these are you still as amazed as the

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it's it's amazing i wish i could

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describe it with words um

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i've seen pictures from space ever since

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i was a kid i had space books and stuff

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and the first time i looked out of the

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window on the space shuttle a couple

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years ago i just couldn't believe it i

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literally took my breath away saw colors

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that i'd never seen before and every

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time you take pictures it's a it's a

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brand new experience

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it's it's kind of funny usually it's a

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flail you go in the cupola which is the

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seven windowed dome module that we have

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that has

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an unbelievable view of the earth and

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stars and you go in there and you're

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like oh wow there's like yesterday we

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were flying over asia there was beijing

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and korea and japan and you have to it's

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a flail you grab the camera and try and

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set it up real quick for night or day or

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whatever you're doing and take some

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pictures because we're going over 17 000

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miles an hour so

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beijing korea and japan last about you

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know two minutes and then you're gone so

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taking the pictures is great but it's

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every time you do it you're just

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they're really stunning images guys is

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there anything particular you miss about

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home at this point in time or being back

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to be quite honest obviously you miss

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the your family being with them that's

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the that's one thing of course we all

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would miss but

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it's such a different environment up

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here new experiences every single day

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and to be honest with you there's no

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longing for anything i don't long for a

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hamburger or anything like that because

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the food appears not bad it's a

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different variety so the newness of it

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all is what makes it truly truly special

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we want to ask you one quick we ask you

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one question just because we had a

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little bit of an issue with it with it

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coming over

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what exactly are you guys up there doing

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so the mission that we're doing right

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now on our six-month expedition to the

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space station

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is science our job here is to do science

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and there's lots of different

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disciplines that we're uh investigating

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biology chemistry physics material

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science combustion science even

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astronomy and so on a daily basis we're

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doing various experiments were either

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setting them up

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changing out samples downlinking imagery

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maintaining the the machines in the this

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laboratory that we have this national

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laboratory of the international space

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station and along with that the second

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half of that mission is maintaining the

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station it's a million pound vehicle

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very complicated lots of different

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modules international we're in a

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japanese module right now the european

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modules there of course there's a big

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american segment and the russian segment

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is a very big part of this

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space station so maintaining this on a

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daily basis is a big job that we have

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getting ready for some space walks is

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very important butch and i are going to

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go out and prepare the station for

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future american

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human vehicles crude vehicles that are

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in february we're doing these space

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walks and these vehicles will be uh

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flying in the next few years we hope and

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so every day there's a different

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challenge on top of all that we have to

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keep ourselves in shape with a lot of

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exercise to counteract the effects of

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weightlessness so it's definitely a

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well keep those stunning images coming

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guys they're really beautiful safe

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travels up there merry christmas captain

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wilmore colonel bertz thanks so much for

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merry christmas everybody in america and

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gary have you just mastered things still

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or are you tethered to something right

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now and and he's just free floating no

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you can't do this on earth that must

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never get old

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no you sure can

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no it doesn't you mentioned our tree was

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on the ceiling but our tree is only on

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the ceiling half the time the other half

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the time it's actually on the floor like

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i like it better upside down it's a new

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yeah this makes doing maintenance very

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easy butch and i were just down in our

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logistics module trying to find a thing

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and it's this big giant wall full of

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probably a thousand pounds of stuff and

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we were just floating in and out of all

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the different bags and it's it's very

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do you get seasick is it a f do you

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uh actually no terry was you know we had

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the centrifuge where we had to get some

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water out of a bag and terry was

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spinning me so i could get the water to

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the end of the bag and there's no

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nauseous no nothing no not at all the

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wow

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thank you guys

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yeah you bet thank you all synchronized

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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 wbal radio and cbs this