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and air force times good morning this is

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Mission Control Houston please call the

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International Space Station for a voice

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check station this is the air force time

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how do you hear me we read you loud and

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clear how do you hear us

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great this question is for four for all

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the all the astronauts wonder if you

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could tell me how your experience as Air

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Force and Navy pilots prepare G for this

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mission well this is Terry Virts and I'm

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an Air Force pilot by background and

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that was probably the most important

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training and formation and foundation

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that I had to be an astronaut there's

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something about my experience as being a

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pilot that helps the way you think you

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think in an operational manner you learn

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how to prioritize what's important and

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what's not and do things in a in the

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appropriate order when when there's

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something that comes up out of the

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ordinary and it also helps you to

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communicate when you don't have a long

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time and you have to get your point

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across quickly and clearly and so being

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a being a pilot is probably the most

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important training it's for sure the

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most important training that I've had

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and that we still do as astronauts and

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all the astronauts have aviation

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training of some kind or other even if

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they weren't military pilots it's what

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and did you if you want an answer from

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all of us I'll let Samantha and Butch

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are both Air Force and Navy pilots also

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so I'll let Samantha add to that great

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yeah I would say a number of things from

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my pilot training and background helped

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complex machines and complex operational

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environments helps a lot too you know

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when you're flying to space and you're

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doing just that you know you're a part

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of a team everybody counts on you doing

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exactly what you were trained for at the

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right moment following the procedures

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taking the right decisions in the right

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time and that's exactly what we trained

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for us as military pilots and then just

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there's a general aspects I think aspect

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of military life that I think I think

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teaches you perseverance teamwork you

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know putting the the goals of the team

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ahead of your personal goals

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self-discipline all that kind of stuff I

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think helps you a lot in the astronaut

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add to that I'd say I'd echo everything

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they said but as a naval aviator same

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thing certainly I think the one thing

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maybe they didn't mention that I would

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add is you're put in stressful

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situations when you're in training you

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know flying a jet aircraft maybe not so

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terribly difficult but when you start

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employing all the capabilities of that

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airframe and leading multiple airplanes

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challenging can be very stressful and

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dealing with all those things

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multitasking is certainly something that

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helps you for this job right here

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without a question and when is your next

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that's what Butch and I are in the

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middle of doing right now is preparing

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space suits and got them resized so that

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they they fit me every space suit has

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different adjustments you can make on

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the arms and legs and gloves to fit the

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individual astronaut and so we just went

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through that process yesterday which was

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in there getting the water loops cleaned

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lubrication events we're gonna do on the

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robotic arm outside so there's a lot of

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preparation that goes into getting ready

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for the spacewalk and Butch and I are

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going to be doing our three spacewalks

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while samantha has the most important

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job of getting us suited up and getting

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which is a pretty big task in itself so

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the three of us will be very busy

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getting ready for and executing those

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and have you have you done a spacewalk

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prior let this be your first yeah I had

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the opportunity before to Tarin Samantha

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truly amazing and thrilling but one

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sights look at the look at all the

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beautiful the earth below and about 98%

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work it's a lot of work in preparing to

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hours in the suit there abouts before

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hours outside and then once you get back

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lot of work so it's a long day a lot

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forward to though it'll be a good day

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almost impossible to describe almost

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impossible I think the one the one

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realizing that you and whoever you're

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going out with we never go alone we

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always go in two or more that you're the

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only people in the universe doing this

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unique thing and having this opportunity

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it truly is and if you have as you have

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this question is also for everyone any

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experiments you are currently doing

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laboratory the Dragon spacecraft came up

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lot of experiments that now we are

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running so it happens very often

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actually that butch teri and I are all

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working in parallel on like three

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different experiments and there's like

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unlike three different in completely

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lot of human physiology experiments

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head towards the towards the heart there

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monitoring Terry and I just did a

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session last week that studies for the

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happens to our lungs and to the gas

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exchange in our lungs when we breathe

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fruit flies and then you know some

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dragon and scientists on the ground can

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examine them and something similar I'm

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experiments on on worms and in that case

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that camera round you'd see a pink

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plant growth is is pink so it looks

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they melt and mix different metal alloys

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a different experiment and there's lots

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and lots of it thank you station and

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Air Force x portion of the event please

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Houston Chronicle station this is the

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we've got you loud and clear how do you

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hear us I hear you guys just fine

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there was a lot of excitement this week

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about the dragon and cst-100 I know you

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guys had a visit from the dragon up

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there how important is it do you think

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for the station to have redundancy and

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vehicle to get here obviously the space

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station would would would be in pretty

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bad shape thankfully for us we all came

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contractors who won that contract and as

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person so there's definitely a big

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get a capability to launch humans from

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Florida from America on on the NASA

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me and my seven-year-old daughter wanted

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me to ask you a question she was

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wondering if it was scary in space Terry

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you had to live with me and Butch yes

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it's very scary in space everywhere

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interesting and challenging work it's a

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great working environment it's a great

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living environment it's a privilege to

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be up here and and it's also a lot of

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fun so I hope that you're a daughter on

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the contrary we'll maybe try and get to

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space ourself one day I think she'd like

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to go to Mars one day so we'll we'll see

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this week is everyone's getting excited

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for Superbowl and I know there's a

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couple of football fans up there you

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guys had plans to watch the game are you

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regrettably our bedtime or at least my

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bedtime is quite early and the game

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actually comes on in the middle of night

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but I am an early riser so I think that

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I get up usually around 4:30 so I think

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I might be able to watch the end of it I

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don't know about these guys here I'll

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let them speak for themselves but I look

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forward to at least watching the end and

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since Ian haven't seen the outcome and I

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might throw something on the grill just

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Tereus a few days ago you tweeze a

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picture of yourself I guess in a JJ

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watch your greatest football player on

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earth I think you know we can all agree

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with about that and Houston is butch the

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greatest football player in in space

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I think that's probably safe to say yeah

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miss butch here he had his he was a

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college football player in in space and

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it's samantha is the greatest european

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football player like in soccer as we

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call it but yes but yeah we enjoy that

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and whenever we do a PR with different

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events we always get a football out and

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use that to demonstrate the zero gravity

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you know floating I'm sure it's not only

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in Houston I think most people can agree

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that JJ Watt is the greatest football

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player not only on earth but probably in

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the whole universe few months Scott

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Kelly was gonna launch the space station

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for a one-year mission butch has been up

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there for a couple months longer than

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Terry and Samantha but y'all back there

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a few months how much do you think that

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a one-year mission how much of a

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challenge is that going to be you know

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from a health standpoint from a mental

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health standpoint firfer Scott you know

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I don't I don't foresee anything from a

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health standpoint necessarily you know

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Scott's kind of a gym rat he likes

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getting in and working out and doing

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those type of things and it's an

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absolute necessity up here to keep

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yourself physically fit to prepare

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yourself for the return back to earth

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and I think Scott will do that one and

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take care of that without issue I think

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one of the things that that is difficult

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is it is it is concentration all day

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every day it's so much at stake up here

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so many science projects so many

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experiments so many everything that

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people put a lot of effort into for

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literally for decades and to be in

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charge of that have those things in your

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hands you you want to make sure you get

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it right so it's a lot of concentration

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and over the long haul that can wear on

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you so I think that's one thing that

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that they are aware of

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got some plans in to give a couple extra

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days off as the time goes on and I think

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that's probably really smart you

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mentioned that you know after about four

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months he was ready to come home the

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last time have you reached that point

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butch well you're kind of ready to come

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home that four months is about right or

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are you still enjoying yourself and wish

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will answer that truthfully I am not

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ready to come home

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I would love to pipe my family up here

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and share some time with them but I

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don't have the four month doldrums at

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all I'm enjoying myself they've kept us

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busy interacting with the ground the

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different control centers around the

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globe has been fun we've tried to make

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it fun to have some laughs that's had

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some good times we cut to keep it light

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up here as well and it's really an

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enjoyable place in such a unique

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environment four months is not too long

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or long enough I think six maybe about

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right

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we'll see I'll let you know in a couple

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months but right now I'm energetic and

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having a good time

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well I'm glad to hear that Terry and

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Samantha both been sending back some

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some great pictures from the planet

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obviously you know you guys been very

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excited about what you've seen I'm

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interested sort of from each of you what

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the coolest thing you've seen in space

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that's really hard question to answer

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because there's so many cool things it's

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hard to rank one above the other I guess

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for me one thing the sunrises and

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sunsets is probably my favorite but what

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the one picture that stands out is early

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in the mission we were flying over

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Northern Europe at night when there was

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some aurora and I got a some some pretty

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amazing shots of england and france and

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ireland with aurora and the distance and

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there was one night there was a big

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storm there so you could see lightning

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going off so that that's one out of many

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from my point of view I mean what are

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you what really always triggers a

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special emotion for me is when we fly

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over over Europe and but from a special

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perspective I really enjoy the spaces

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where we kind of fly over Gibraltar and

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onto the Mediterranean there there is

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something that has a special emotional

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connection I think it's the history that

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I relate to and the culture and I don't

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know it always resonates with me a lot

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from a visual point of view I guess I

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would just throw out the the last thing

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that really impressed me that I saw

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yesterday actually two of them one was

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last week for the first time I have I

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had like two I had some night passes

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over I guess the Thailand area and and

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those like parts of the sea were like

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totally full of very very bright green

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dots that I understand are fishing boats

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and that was just so impressive I mean

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so many of them and so bright it was an

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incredible sight and that's not thing I

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saw just yesterday for the first time

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which was like a an Aurora and listing

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Aurora's multiple times but the reason

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was like the the blue the the blue

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stripe the really bright blue stripes

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that comes up on the earth name when the

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Sun rises it kind of you know it kind of

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touched the aurora so I had this

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incredible blue turning over into this

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incredible green of the Aurora and I had

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never seen that so it was really amazing

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to see that without question I mean like

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they said look the views at the window

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are magnificent yeah there's there's no

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way you could pick one at least I can't

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over the other but without question the

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memory I think I will take back is when

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Terry and Samantha arrived I've been

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here two months and when they came in

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the looks on their faces and watching

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Samantha who's the first-time flyer

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finally get to a window that she can see

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down towards the earth and watch her

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expression and the things that she's

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trying to describe I saw take place was

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just thrilling to watch it was truly

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amazing

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it was neat one more thing last night we

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had a chance to just real quick last

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night we had a chance to fly over the

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east coast of the US which was a

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beautiful pass I got some great shots of

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it but it was the blizzard so you could

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see Atlanta DC Baltimore New York and

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then he it was getting cloudier and

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cloudier and you could see a hurricane

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there it looks

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looks like our hurricane just off the

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coast of Boston that was that was pretty

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amazing to know how many people down

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there in America are being affected and

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then to be able to see it in the

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moonlight because that whenever the moon

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shines you can see clouds not like

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daytime but but you can definitely see

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them that was that was pretty cool sorry

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go ahead just a final quick question

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maybe maybe one of y'all could describe

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the condition of the station it's been

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up there now it'll be 15 years inhabited

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later this year and then you know it's

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got a lifetime of 20 24 maybe 2028 how

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would you describe it is it a well-worn

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house is it have the new car feel is it

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you know a clunker how would you

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characterize it well the station I think

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overall is in great shape it's it's an

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amazingly good shape for as long as it's

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been here you module by module it's it's

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different as far as the age and and how

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new it is here in the Japanese module

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this it's like a new car in here

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everything looks brand new and it's

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really kept up well no one is kind of

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our eating area it was the very first

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American module that got launched so

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that is definitely has a used-car feel

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not a new car feel the American segment

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modules are different than the Russian

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segment model modules but overall on

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both segments personally I think it's in

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great shape it requires a lot of effort

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we have to constantly clean it and you

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know make sure we keep it in good shape

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because like with time like anything it

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would get worn out but we spent a lot of

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time cleaning it and we get a lot of

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spare parts that we can replace things

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with and it's in great shape