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absolutely we are ready for the event

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fox news channel this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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fox news we got you loud and clear

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welcome aboard the international space

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great thank you so much

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i've done many interviews before at nasa

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headquarters but never

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in outer space so i'd like to know what

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it's like um commander wilmore and

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commander verts what it's like in space

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well day to day it's it's absolutely

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fantastic there's a great deal of work

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obviously our days are scheduled pretty

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much start to finish we start with a

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planning conference we end with a

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planning conference for the next day's

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events and and pretty much most of the

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day is scheduled between that we have

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workouts scheduled we have different

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experiments scheduled we have

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maintenance scheduled and so it's fairly

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busy but

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you know not many places that you can go

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to work and you can just float around

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and do these type of things so it makes

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um how about for you

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well i'll uh i'll agree with butch it's

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a busy day from basically the morning

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and uh so it's work work work and then

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when you can you take a minute to relax

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today i was working out on the um

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the machine we call a red doing my

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exercise and i looked up and saw that we

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were flying over india so i ran and

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grabbed a camera and took a few pictures

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of the taj mahal and then a few minutes

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mount everest a few minutes later we

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were flying over the deserts of central

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china which are just amazing and then a

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couple minutes later was time to get

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back to work because i had to move on to

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some maintenance tasks that we're doing

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to reconfigure the station so it's

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basically a lot of work punctuated by

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some really amazing things like getting

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to float like this or see the beautiful

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earth or stars so it's a pretty it's a

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pretty fun and busy time

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wow that is amazing i wanted to know

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because i know in about a month or so um

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the year-long venture to space is going

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to start what are your thoughts on

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spending an entire year

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thoughts on spending a year in space you

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know there's a lot of information we can

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get from the human body and what a year

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of the effects of a year in space

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weightlessness will do to it and that's

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very interesting science and that's of

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the year-long mission coming up would i

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do it uh absolutely i would do it

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there are certain caveats you know we're

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finish and that of course begins two and

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a half years before we launch with the

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training all around the globe so we're

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not a huge sacrifice on us we're

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traveling around the world seeing

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sacrifices on the family so for me

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responsibility is as a husband and a

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father so for me right now to go for a

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year and add another six months to that

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i agree with butch what we get to do as

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astronauts is the fun thing we get to

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the difficulty and the and the real

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heroes are our families that support us

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and allow us to do this it's a lot of

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like butch was saying but you know it's

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there's thousands of our troops that do

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very similar deployments and

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the sacrifice that we do

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country there's lots of people that

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that's great i i wanted to ask you

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because i have a 8th grader and you know

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we're doing the science experiment time

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what about the experiments there you

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know how many are going on at one time

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well first of all bless you and uh good

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luck we'll pray for you having an eighth

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grader i've got some teenagers myself

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and second of all the science that we do

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here is pretty cool and it's very it's

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varied it's not the same science

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experiment every day

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we have right next to me robonaut he's

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buttoned up right now it's a big giant

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robot that we've been working on inside

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science experiment in the glove box and

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we do some biology experiments there

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experiment this morning and so basically

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helping to discover what the universe is

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made out of so every type of science

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that there is we get to do or at least

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be involved in a small way now um

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kat wilmore and i are both pilots we're

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just fighter pilots and we kind of do

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what the scientists need us to do but it

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that would be very difficult like uh

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varied things and be involved with so

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many things very important science uh

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these uh various folks around the globe

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of what we have our hands on and so we

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get it done right so and that's that's

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the pleasure in it i couldn't pick one

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difficult and actually impossible to do

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what is um okay so what is the weirdest

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folks as well say very similar things

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all got sent back to earth which is

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efforts the goal is to reduce the launch

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our future that we're doing as a country

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short here so i uh you know since you

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valentine's day anything how are you

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keeping in touch with your families

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are you sending a special bouquet of

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coverage and we the nasa sets up a

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weekly video conference for us of course

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there's email that we can

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there is uh it's not like being home at

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all but there is a lot of uh

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a lot of ability to contact your family

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sides of the family that went off and

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commander is there any last thoughts or

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no i tell you what the support of the

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american public the people the thousands

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of people across this uh our great

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nation that put their their passion and

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soul into into what we do a lot of what

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benefit to mankind and we appreciate of

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course all of them and uh it's it's a

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great thing that we do for our nation as

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we come together and work together for

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these uh great accomplishments and they

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great thank you so much for your time i

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really appreciate it and for your work

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absolutely thank you

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well that's very kind we wish we could

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see you but obviously we're staring into

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i hear you i hear you um

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we're going to be ready to go in just a

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we'll be ready when you are

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thank you sir

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okay

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welcome gentlemen it's great to see you

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and it looks like you're having lots of

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oh absolutely this is a great place to

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have fun there's no doubt things

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obviously that you can do here you

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no doubt about that commander wilmore

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there's so much going on at the

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international space station at the

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moment give us a sense of what it's like

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to work in zero gravity and conduct many

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oh my that is that is an interesting

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question it is uh it's like i said it's

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fabulous

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it's busy absolutely busy we're

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scheduled uh pretty much 12 hours a day

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to include two and a half hours of

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physical activity you know working out

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doing aerobic and anaerobic exercise

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but other than that it's it's

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maintenance task it's science it's a go

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go pretty much all day every day and

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obviously it's friday we're glad it's

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friday we get a weekend as well and uh

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there's many weeks that we uh we've

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worked hard and we feel like we deserve

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that weekend and this past one was one

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wow uh perry one of the key areas that's

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being tested is the effects of

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microgravity on cells along with

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studying the long-term impact of zero

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gravity on the human body wouldn't you

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say this is a critical

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experiment particularly if man hopes to

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absolutely that's one of the most

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important

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functions that the space station

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performs is showing that people can live

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work and thrive in space and more

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importantly when they get back to earth

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come back in good shape and we've been

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demonstrating that for 15 years now

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we're doing a lot of

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human experiments with ultrasound

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machine

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some various scanners that they use to

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look at our brain our heart our eyes and

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every week somebody is getting scanned

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in some way so

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seeing how our bodies react and adapt to

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space is very important and of course

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with the 15 years of space station

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and uh space stations like mir and

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skylab and others before it we've shown

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that people really can live and work and

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function in space for a long period of

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time and of course that's what we need

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to be able to do if we're going to go on

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know uh commander wilmar you've already

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been in space now for uh many months and

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you return back to earth uh next month

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what impact so far has this had on your

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body and as you pointed out you do

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exercise and that's part of the

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requirement isn't it to exercise every

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it is you know what effects has it had

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you know we'll find that out when i get

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back and we do work out every single day

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i've only missed two days of working out

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since i've been here and i've been here

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for four and a half months and those two

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days were days that we had space walks

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back in october so it is every single

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day and it and it does make a difference

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i feel i'm actually stronger now as far

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as weight i'm able to lift on our

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exercise device than when i arrived i

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may be stronger now than i've been about

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any time in my life because of that

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continual working out and also uh you

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know we're able to for whatever reason

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we're able to eat here and when i really

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don't gain weight we have to actually

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eat more than we normally do to maintain

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our weight and i guess that combination

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of of putting all those uh nutrients in

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there into our bodies more so than what

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what i usually do or am able to do on

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earth or i'll gain a lot of weight and

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then also the working out it's keeping

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us fit and uh and the numbers we'll see

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what the numbers say but if it's like

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some others that have gone before us

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you know terry i recently interviewed

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scott kelly who plans to break a record

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by living in space for a year and he'll

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be joining you and your team

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next month what do you expect maybe some

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of the biggest challenges that he will

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yeah we're looking forward to seeing

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scott and misha and also gennady padalka

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arrive

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uh in about a month month and a half uh

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i think the biggest challenge for a year

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of course there's the effects on your

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body we understand those pretty well

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it'll be interesting to see how that how

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they do after a year there's only been a

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few other flights that the russians did

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on the mir space program a few decades

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ago but the biggest challenge and butch

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mentions this a lot is the

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requirement to concentrate so intently

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all day every day on everything you do

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you really have to pay attention to

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everything you do here there's a lot of

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detail in the procedures that we work

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and i think the psychological aspects of

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the year

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uh is going to be a bigger

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challenge and and probably more

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interesting results um even than the

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physiological

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uh you know on a personal note commander

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wilmore as i understand it you and terry

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were both hooked on the idea of space

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travel ever since you were youngsters

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what was it that actually inspired you

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to follow through with your dreams was

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it those early images of the space

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pioneers who landed on the moon and give

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us a sense of the majesty of what it's

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like to watch the earth high above

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far far away

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and the whole idea of being in a

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universe with endless boundaries with no

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now that is an interesting couple of

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questions there um

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inspired me i was inspired by many

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things you know i was

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i can remember my youngest uh

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memory was being inspired by the garbage

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man because he could lift that garbage

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can and put it up on his shoulder and

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from that you're just being inspired to

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to to be strong and physically and then

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you know what you see would take place

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on television during those early apollo

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years

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that was obviously certainly inspiring

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so it wasn't just those events it was

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many events many people throughout my

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life that uh really inspired me to do

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the best with what the good lord gave me

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and that's that's the main thing for me

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and you mentioned looking outside oh i

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when i did the the spacewalk back in

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october and looking through that visor

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and not having dust or air particles or

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humidity in the air to inhibit the flow

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of light and being able to see so clear

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for so far thousands of miles uh i it's

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no way really to put it into words

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there's no way that you can take a

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picture or video to show it it's just

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it's

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terry for you do you share those similar

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i do uh you know the first book i read

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in kindergarten was about apollo

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and uh as a kid my mom my dad my

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step-dad they all worked at the goddard

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space flight center um my mom was a

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secretary there my dad was a technician

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there and so

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i was always interested in space growing

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up my my walls were covered with space

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pictures and airplane pictures i even

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had an f-16 uh picture

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as a kid i eventually ended up going on

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to fly f-16 so it's been something that

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i was just interested in since since i

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was a little boy

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but seeing the earth you know i wish i

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could describe it

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unfortunately we're fighter pilots and

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we're not poets and you just can't

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put words to what you see

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it takes your breath away and so we we

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take a lot of pictures and there we have

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twitter accounts and you can see the

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pictures that we take every day um and

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even the pictures are amazing but they

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still they still can't do what you

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actually when you look down on creation

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absolutely well gentlemen you are

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obviously on the adventure of a lifetime

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i wish i could join you up there it's

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absolutely wonderful you're part of an

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elite fraternity of amazing astronauts

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we wish you all the best and safe

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those are really kind words um thank you

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very much and y'all have a y'all have a

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great day great valentine's day tomorrow

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