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station this is andrew flying again with

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billboard how do you hear me

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yes we got you great

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okay i'm very excited to be talking to

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you guys um my first question is

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people talk about their desert island

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discs but that's a concept that you

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actually had to face maybe vastness of

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so the question is what music did we

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and um is that is that what the question

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was andrew

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okay i brought a lot of different kinds

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of music i have a lot of contemporary

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christian music like brandon heath

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casting crowns that kind of music i've

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got some pop and some dance music i use

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when i work out

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i brought some country music i got some

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classical stuff to just chill out too so

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i i really like a lot of different kinds

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of music and um

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and uh it depends on what mood i'm in it

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what about

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yeah that would be me butch

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yeah i'm about the same i've got some

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contemporary christians some mercy me

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and that type of stuff i also really

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like uh kind of the uh big bands kind of

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movie score type music with audio

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machine and thomas bergerson and and

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that type of genre as well i listen to a

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lot of that

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do you guys ever do you guys ever fight

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no actually we we have it i like his

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who would you say is the best taste i'm

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for some reason my guess was elena

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yeah that's that's a good that's a good

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guess her her and uh samantha as well

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if you could pick one artist alive or

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dead to send into space either to learn

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from the experience or just to entertain

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i would send brandon heath he's a good

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friend of mine he's a contemporary

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christian artist and he was actually at

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my space shuttle launch and he came to

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russia to kazakhstan

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for my launch from baikonur a few months

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ago so he's a good friend of mine he

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actually wrote a song after my shuttle

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launch that was kind of inspired by that

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so i think it would be really cool to

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have him up there somebody who's an

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artist who's not just a pilot fighter

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pilot like me and butcher but somebody

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who could communicate

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the wonder of space flight that i think

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i honestly could not choose one there's

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so many that i enjoy i i'd be i'd be uh

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narrowing it too narrow if i were to

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pick one can't do it

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piggybacking off what you just said how

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relieved are you

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that chris hadfield and his guitar

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oh we've heard chris play many actually

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chris is pretty good and he's got some

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songs i mean he's made up a couple of

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songs that are quite humorous as well so

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we we kind of enjoy that it's not bad

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okay

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um

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but how connected are you

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in real time to the world below do you

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have to just take houston's word for

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you know they they uh

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keep us in touch pretty well um we can

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make phone calls when we have the right

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satellite connection uh so throughout a

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lot of the day it's possible to make a

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phone call if you want to do that we get

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email in almost real time so we can get

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messages back and forth and there is a

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internet connection that is available

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uh time connection and oftentimes almost

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real-time so we we could stay plugged in

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to the earth you know one of the

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advantages of being in space is that you

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can get rid of that email account on the

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ground and you can get disconnected a

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little bit it's actually pretty nice to

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not know everything going on in the last

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90s are you glad to see that space

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exploration and science in general have

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world and talk to uh students and adults

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about space flight and i've never met

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anyone who wasn't interested in it who

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wasn't enthralled by it who didn't think

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and it's because it is and um i think

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space travel i think that in the coming

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other partner nations start to go beyond

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the moon and mars and start to explore

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the solar system that's going to be even

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is it hard to keep lying about aliens

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there's no line it's i've never seen

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something strange not that it it

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couldn't happen i guess but i certainly

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space exploration and experimentation is

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exploration and and you know the drive

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to move west and expanding frontiers

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that's just part of who we are as

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americans and as a nation unless we're

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expanding and pushing ahead i think

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contracting so i think it's something

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that we need to do it's in our national

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character and by pushing boundaries and

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doing things that you haven't done

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before you make discoveries um about how

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to do other things that you may not have

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even anticipated so there are practical

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benefits for folks on earth but there's

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at nasa's budget if that's what you're

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federal government budget so

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appreciate the taxpayer support but as a

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don't launch it into space we spend it

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on earth that you know at home uh on on

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engineer jobs and so on so uh the amount

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space exploration i think is well spent

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can you um talk a little bit about the

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experiments you're conducting up there i

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know there's four of them and they all

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being here on the space station is we

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get to do a lot of different varied

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experiments we have an astronomy

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experiment that's looking for

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dark matter and anti-particles

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we have a lot of biology experiments i

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plants and we're going to be growing

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i did one it's called capillary flow

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experiment that will hopefully help

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future satellites be able to use every

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last drop of fuel because it's so

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expensive to launch things in a space

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that's important and that was really

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cool because by changing the geometry of

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a container just by like a half of a

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you can get this fluid to move really

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quickly in different directions and so

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tank and make sure all the fuel gets

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sucked out of the gas tank i did not

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but in weightlessness that's the way it

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behaves i could go on and on there's so

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many different experiments we're doing

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but um they're very interesting some of

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them provide benefits on earth

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uh hopefully curing diseases for humans

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and others are learning about the

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universe that we live in

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great i've just got one more silly

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question for you do you think that

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beyonce got robbed at the grammys this

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absolutely she was robbed we were very

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upset about that we were talking about

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thank you so much

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yeah it's our pleasure andrew thank you

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the billboard portion of the

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event please stand by for a voice check

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this is beth from wbir tv can you hear

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beth we have you loud and clear welcome

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to the international space station well

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greetings from knoxville tennessee how

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we're doing great it's great to be

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talking to god's country

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i hear you i'm a little disappointed you

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didn't mention rocky top to billboard

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yeah you know we i've only had a few

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opportunities to get some of my clothes

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back and all my orange went back on this

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last spacex last week my apologies

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i understand nasa's had to make some

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special accommodations given that you're

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they have actually yeah they uh provided

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the sec network and other opportunities

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to watch as much of the college football

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and university of tennessee as

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i wanted so it was it was fantastic it

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was a great season to be up here and be

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flight engineer verts are you sick of

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you're missing i just want you to know

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missing a big ice and snow storm here in

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tennessee so i hope things are much

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yes i've heard i've seen pictures of

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course my my family still lives in

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middle tennessee and they've shown me

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the two inch thick on their cars some

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pictures and photos so yeah the 72

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degrees around the clock year round here

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is really nice absolutely

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what do you miss most about tennessee

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rolling hills you know and houston's a

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great city a great place but it doesn't

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have the topography that tennessee

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offers and that's the main thing for me

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uh i grew up with that and and was used

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to seeing that rolling hills everywhere

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everywhere you went all the different

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different greenery and whatnot so that's

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definitely what i miss the most

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going to space was this always the dream

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you know i guess it was something that

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like a lot of kids my when you know i

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was a child i thought about it was

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something that near my mind but never

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once fathomed that possibly i'd be

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floating here with a couple of space

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boots and and i find another american

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colonel verts here and doing the things

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that we're getting to do i never dreamed

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it would actually come true no it's it's

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pretty amazing

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colonel verts if you guys

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give me a tour of where you are and i

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want to talk about the space walks you

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these are our space suits this is

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butch's suit and this is my suit and

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we're going out on friday

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and he's going into what we call the

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crew lock that's the part of the airlock

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where we actually go outside that hatch

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that he's sitting on right now is the

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hatch that he will open up on friday and

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then we're both going to go out into

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open space

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and then this hatch right here will come

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down and close and seal us off

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and then we have a pump that will pump

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the air back into the space station most

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of it so we don't waste it

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and

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we'll be outside for

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planned on six and a half hours and uh

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but we gotta be getting the suits a

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couple hours before that and we're

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probably in them and for an hour after

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that so you're in the space suit almost

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all day long

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and uh it's gonna be uh it's gonna be a

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lot of fun

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yeah commander wilmore what what's the

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well you know in in short we have a

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future vehicles that are going to dock

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to the space station and the docking

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adapters are going to be different

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they're going to be changed so those

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docking adapters since they are

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different have different power

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requirements basically and we're going

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to be running cables from the base of

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the station here out to the very end of

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the station where those docking adapters

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will be installed and that's kind of a

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short answer to a lot of work though

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just for running cables and there's many

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cables running all over the station that

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we'll be doing in those three spacewalks

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how are the accommodations there and the

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oh it's a five-star hotel i mean what

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you've got a free bed and free food and

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like i said it's 72 degrees around the

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clock and you can't beat it it's

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fantastic

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are the two of you sick of each other

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that's that's no we've known each other

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for 15 years and uh terry's like i said

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he's a fine american is a colonel in the

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air force and i got a great deal of

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respect for him we know each other's

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families well so no i'm not tired of him

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at all hopefully he's not tired of me

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and also one thing i forgot to mention

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obviously is the view is pretty

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incredible

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i can only imagine

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anything you want to say commander

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wilmore to folks in tennessee or

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anything else you want to say about the

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state of tennessee and and how it's

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well tennessee's home i think that uh

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you know the character if if i have any

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decent character it came from the roots

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in tennessee and uh you just an attitude

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of friendly people everywhere you go

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everywhere you meet willing to lend a

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helping hand that's what i grew up with

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and hopefully that's a little bit of me

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as well and i i can uh you know share

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some of that with others so tennessee

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like i said it's home it's god's country

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i love it there and hopefully one day

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i'll be able to come back

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absolutely go vols we got big

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expectations next year and we're excited

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it sounds like it was a good recruiting

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season for the for the football team so

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well give me an idea of your your daily

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schedule

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and

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flight engineer virtue can do that if

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you'd like the other

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one of the interesting things about

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being here is that every day is

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different and we start our mornings

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about 7 7 30 in the morning with a call

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down to the ground a kind of a morning

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tag up planning conference and then it

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goes for about 12 hours about the same

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time in the evening we end the day with

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another conference and in between

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uh they they schedule us for a couple

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hours of exercise every day uh we

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usually have several hours of

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experiments that we do there's usually a

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couple of maintenance tasks to repair

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something or

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replace a piece of equipment

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these last few days we've been spending

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a lot of time in here getting ready you

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can see right right behind butch the um

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all the equipment that we need to take

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outside these cables and different tools

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we've been gathering so every day it's

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something different um when we can we

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try and sneak a look out the window and

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take some pictures unfortunately that's

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usually not nearly as much as we'd like

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to but uh every day is different it's a

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lot of fun and then in the evenings

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usually we have dinner together and talk

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and

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lucky you

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commander wilmore when you return to

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earth i am lucky and i i i just want to

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say

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tennessee i've been there many times i

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got good friends there and i really

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enjoy visiting it's a beautiful state

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that's great to hear

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commander wilmore when you return to

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earth will you come back to tennessee or

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oh i you know i do live in houston all

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the astronauts live and train out of

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houston that's true but all my family's

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there my parents uh they're in mount

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juliet my wife's mother and family they

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all live uh uh pinot nina tennessee

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north of knoxville north dakota they'll

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be probably watching this so yeah oh

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yeah we'll be we'll be in tennessee

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often and not probably not long after i

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return

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yes we we talked with some of your

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outstanding yeah there's a that's like i

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said that's my wife's family great great

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individuals there and great support as

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well you guys have a safe trip home

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hopefully we can talk to you when you

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that'd be great yeah we'll try to stop

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on by and thank you very much

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sure let's say go vols

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i can say rocket dog but you don't want

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to hear me saying it

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i'll take your word for it well a

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pleasure to talk to you both appreciate

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what you're doing and thanks for giving

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us some time today

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absolutely beth thank you very much and

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all your listeners and watchers thank

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station this is houston acr thank you

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that concludes our event

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