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aviation week and space technology this

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is mission control houston please call

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station for a voice check

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good morning station this is mark caro

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with aviation week in space technology

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hi mark welcome aboard the international

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thank you

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i've got some questions i know you're

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both busy so i appreciate the

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opportunity

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i wonder if the two of you could discuss

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what the key challenges are for this

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third spacewalk as it's currently

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planned it seems like there's lots of

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cable and lots of space station real

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that's right mark we're continuing the

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cable theme that we had from the first

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two evas and this one we're going to lay

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down over 400 feet of cable we're going

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to send two cables out to the left side

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of the station or port side and two to

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the right side or starboard side

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and these cables are going to attach to

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some antennas that are going to be used

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for the future american vehicles that

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are going to be docking bringing crew to

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the space station starting in a few

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years so we need to put these antennas

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and the cables there for them and also

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some reflectors so their onboard

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navigation systems that use lasers can

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see the reflectors and that way the

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spaceship will know where the station is

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and what orientation it's in and will be

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able to dock properly so

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there's a lot of moving from one end to

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the other of the station and a lot of

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equipment and hardware that we're going

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to be bringing out there

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and terry i'd like to ask you if

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if you and the experts on the ground are

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any closer to identifying the source of

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the water

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in your spacesuit helmet after the

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second spacewalk

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and how concerned you might be about

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embarking on a third spacewalk in the

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well you know to be honest i've been

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busy getting ready for the third

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spacewalk and i know a lot of

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specialists i've gotten some emails and

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talked to folks on the ground they're

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very busy analyzing the data this is

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something that we've seen before and i

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mentioned it yesterday when i noticed

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some water i said it might be the same

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issue it's happened a few times

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so it's something that it's possible

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that it's something that we've seen

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before but that's still to be determined

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and i'm sure that nasa is looking very

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intently at it and they're going to have

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a good answer for us here shortly um as

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far as being concerned i'm actually

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pretty happy with this spacesuit it's

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gotten me out the door and back in

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safely twice so i kind of like it and

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and hopefully it's good and i can keep

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on going out in the same one

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well it sounds like uh if if they can

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find a satisfactory answer

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um your your prime you're ready to go on

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that's right yeah butch and i will

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absolutely be ready to go and uh it's

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just a question the ground's gonna make

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the decision for us uh after looking at

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the data and uh i'm i'm completely

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confident i'm not going outside unless

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we're sure that it's a good shoot good

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okay and i'd like to ask the both of you

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these this series of three spacewalks to

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reconfigure

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the station for these commercial uh

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docking ports seems um you know bigger

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than just the just the work of

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putting the hardware in place this is

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really sort of giving

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the us space program a new direction and

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i just wonder what the two of you think

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about the significance of this activity

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oh it's absolutely a huge significance

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it is is changing our capabilities of

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the international space station we're

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preparing for the future as we prepare

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for as terry said for these these us

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vehicles to dock to the station right

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now we've got the old shuttle docking

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adapters and they're kind of big those

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kind of docking doctors are big and

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heavy and and these smaller vehicles

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there's no reason to put that kind of

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weight on them so the docking adapters

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are different and so we put those

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docking adapters on there like we said

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they have to have power and getting that

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power to them this is our job or working

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on those cables to get it to it and this

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is a huge effort yeah we've spent some

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you know six and a half hours on two

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spacewalks outside but it has been

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literally years of planning engineers

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training teams assessment teams uh

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operational teams uh across our nation

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doing much in preparation for this so

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this is this is a huge endeavor you're

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absolutely right in that assessment

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i wonder if the two of you could give us

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a little insight into sort of physical

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demands uh even the mental

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demands of doing this kind of work i

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i listened yesterday to the space walks

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and it seemed like there was an awful

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lot of coordination between the two of

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you probably as much just looking at one

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another is actually talking

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and also the sort of

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support that you got from samantha and

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also on the ground from joe acaba and

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kind of cueing

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you here and there to

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to what was coming next and i just

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wonder how important that sort of

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yeah that teamwork is absolutely vital

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these these goals don't get accomplished

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these objectives do not happen without

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the work of everybody coming together

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and you know in joel talking to us he's

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just the voice of many people in the

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background that are talking to him and

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he's the conduit of communication to us

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back and forth so there's many many uh

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people on the ground that are assessing

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you know real time making real-time

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changes to what's taking place and like

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i said he's he's the one of the prime

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ones and samantha like you said uh terry

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and samantha worked together to lube the

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the arm yesterday and it would not have

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happened uh they got all the get-aheads

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done and it would not have happened in

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our time allotted had not samantha been

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exactly ready to start and do her part

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every single time so her part was vital

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as well and as far as the physical

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aspects i can tell you there's there's

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not many things that that i think that

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are more mentally

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and physically challenging

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simultaneously as is doing a spacewalk

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like this with all the intricate details

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and the various things and and there's

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no way that at least in my brain that i

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can mentally put it all together and

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make it happen alone that's why we need

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joe and those ground teams feeding us

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information sometimes where a handrail

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crucial to the success of any endeavor

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and what about the the physicality of it

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if you know are you are your hands uh in

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need of more rest or your arms and all

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that or or can you work in the

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spacesuits and do all the stuff that's

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yeah you are absolutely sore and uh

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tired after a spacewalk the good news is

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it seems like your body heals a little

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bit quicker in space than it does on

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earth but they give us a few days off

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which are really important like you said

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that just to heal your forearms and your

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marathons on earth and half marathons

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and the spacewalk is is is definitely

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takes a lot of energy out of you we were

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about our heart rates and it's amazing

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the heart rate level and the amount of

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physical work you do for

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uh the six and a half hours we were

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outside plus a couple hours beforehand

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in the suit and about an hour afterwards

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in the suit so it's a lot of work you're

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absolutely right about the physical

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okay one thing the uh one thing that a

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lot of people aren't aware of is that

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you know when you're out on in the in

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it's like literally

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almost 300 degrees and and the place you

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can feel that is right in our fingertips

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when we're on the you know on the sun

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side of the orbit and that heat

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you don't feel 300 degrees at your

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fingertips but you feel warm that heat

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combined with the fatigue inside those

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gloves really does wear on those

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fingertips for a while you know when you

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come back in your fingertips are all

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pink and white and discolored and and

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very very tender and after the first

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spacewalk even your your fingernails

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feel like they get peeled back a little

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bit and after the first spacewalk it

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really normal and i told terry i said i

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better and then and it that is indeed

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the case this morning i feel much better

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than i did the morning after the first

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one so just anyway just a little piece

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of information

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no that's very interesting it seems very

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for you butch is i know your mission is

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nearing an end in a couple of weeks i

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wonder how you might characterize your

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time aboard the space station as a sort

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i think one the first adjective that

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the second group of words that come to

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grip to mind is uh a great deal of work

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this is a busy place and it needs to be

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i mean you come up here you need to be

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ready to work and there's a great deal

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that we're trying to accomplish and so

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that means pretty much sun up to sun

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down as it would be on earth you know we

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get 16 of them here that it's continual

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work almost all day every day and like i

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said it needs to be that way because

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there's so much that we're trying to

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accomplish so you got to come up here

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with an eager energetic attitude and

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keep the fire burning because uh

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it's it's pretty busy like i said and it

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okay well let me thank both of you and

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wish you both the best of luck as you

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pursue the rest of your cable hookups

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super thank you mark

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the aviation week and space

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technology portion of the event

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please stand by for a voice check from

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station this is way tv how do you hear

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we read you loud and clear welcome on

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flight engineer terry verts and iss

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commander butch wilmar joining me right

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butch and terry i'm here in huntsville

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uh home of the the marshall space flight

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center and they're probably at the poic

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they're probably a little angry right

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now that i'm taking some of your time

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away from science but i wanted to ask

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you i talk to them all the time about

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how they work with you so i wanted to

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ask you you know on a day-to-day basis

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how often are you guys working with the

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yeah goodness on on well first of all uh

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home of the marshall space flight center

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and home of a lot of snow i understand

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um we are uh working with them every day

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and we are just uh

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on most days on the last few days it's

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been spacewalks but on most days we're

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dealing with them there's lots of

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different experiments every day it's a

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different type of experiment a different

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variety and so

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one of the best parts of our time here

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is a chance to do science it's the

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mission that we're here for and it's a

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lot of fun doing such a varied and

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thanks terry uh you mentioned the

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spacewalk that you guys just did i know

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the poi crew got a little bit of a break

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yesterday while you guys were out for

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about six and a half hours um you guys

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are in the airlock right now i know both

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of you are experienced spacewalkers but

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the question that i have is when that

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airlock opens and you're suited up what

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well i'll say for me this is my first

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and yesterday was my second spacewalk uh

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what's going through my mind is uh what

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do i do next where's my tether going to

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go what handrail do i go to

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and

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you know what what are the next steps

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that we're going to do so i'm pretty

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much just focused on the tasks so

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excuses some of our spacewalking

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equipment just floated by

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but uh you have to be for every minute

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it's six and a half hours out the door

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but inside it's a couple extra hours

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beforehand an hour afterwards and so

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it's literally it's like 12 hours of 100

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concentration on every every second of

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yeah i'll say also that that the kind of

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the motto that terry and i talk about

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before we go out and remind each other

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is that there's nothing more important

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than what you're doing right now if

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you've done something great put it

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behind you you got to you got more work

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to do if you've done something bad put

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it behind you you've got more work to do

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you can't think about what's coming in

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the future because you're in the vacuum

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of space and you're attached to this to

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the station by a little bit you know

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kind of a little metal tether and

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anything could go awry at any moment so

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you really got to be focused on your

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tasks make sure your local tethers are

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there you're you're attaching your self

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to station and keep your mind turning

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you know when we fly airplanes both of

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us are pilots well he's a pilot and i'm

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a naval aviator but uh you always sort

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of think about staying in front of the

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airplane you never want to get up where

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you're hanging onto the tail of the

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airplane we think the thing same thing

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about spacewalking is that if if if you

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feel like you're getting behind you miss

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and you realize that you didn't put down

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a local tether when you should

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slow down because it's vital and it's a

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very dangerous environment as you know

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and it's vital that we do things and we

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do it right and so safety is paramount

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and that's that's kind of what we just

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like i said try to keep reminding

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well i've been seeing on on twitter you

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guys have tweeted out spacewalk selfies

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and stuff like that so while remaining

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focused on the job is something that

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you're always doing uh it looks like you

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you take a moment every now and then to

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just appreciate you know i'm doing

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something that very few people have ever

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well that's right you know i'm a

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photographer i love taking pictures um

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but i was really shocked on both the

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first and second spacewalk that we did

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how little time there was to take

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pictures on the first spacewalk there

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was there was basically no time i had to

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grab the camera snap a few pictures real

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quick for maybe a minute or less and put

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it away and i think i did that two or

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three times almost no time at all and

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even on the second spacewalk when i had

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some time

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where i was just standing still i

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thought i'd have a few minutes to take

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pictures but it almost didn't exist

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because there's so much work that you

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need to do and you just don't want to

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waste any time you just want to get the

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work done so we try and take them and we

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can and hopefully we got a few good ones

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but uh it was surprising to me because i

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love taking pictures and i thought i'd

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make some time but it's it's hard it's

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hard to grab a few minutes uh when

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um

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bush this question might be more for you

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i wanted to ask a little bit about

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the 3d printer i know that's that's a

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project they got going on at marshall

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right now and they told me that you've

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kind of adopted that you installed it

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pulled off the first pieces and all that

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um so i just want to ask what what's the

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interest in that why why did you kind of

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well you know you don't you don't like

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just go out and say that's mine i'll

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take that fortunately i was very

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fortunate that it would just kind of

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fill in my lap i was here at the time

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kind of alone i was between missions and

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it was time to install it so i i sort of

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got to install it and from there i just

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kind of scheduled to work with it and it

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was it's very intriguing i mean you

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think about the concept of of needing a

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part for the space station you don't

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have on board and being able literally

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to print it out in a printer and then go

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install it oh i need this special tool i

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don't have that tool on board okay well

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let's print out that special tool and uh

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and make it work and we actually printed

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out a small uh wrench as well so i mean

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it's it's just fascinating technology

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the possibilities are absolutely endless

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we're in the baby steps right now of

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learning how to do this process we're

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just using plastics right now in the

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zero g environment but the the prospects

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are like i said are just out of this

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world literally about where this could

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um i'd like to follow up on that where

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do you guys see this technology going um

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and what do you see its value being for

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astronauts you know you guys are about a

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few hours away from a resupply but when

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we start going farther and farther and

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farther um

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what do you see the worth of that

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well yeah it's absolutely

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valuable for something like that if you

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could print out tools or parts

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that could really save on the amount of

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mass that you have to launch into space

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and it could also give you some

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flexibility if something broke that you

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didn't anticipate breaking you could

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print it out and use that part so

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in the future this could be really

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really valuable right now there are

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certain types of plastics that they're

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using uh but if they you know maybe

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eventually we'll be able to do something

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like metal or with that type of hardness

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so

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yeah the for future space exploration

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there's no resupply missions on mars so

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yeah i'm excited to see where they're

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going to take it um but we're about out

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of time now so i just wanted to ask um

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terry i know you're about halfway

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through your ex your mission uh butch

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you're you're coming to the end so i

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wanted to ask both of you what if you

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could pick one moment that you're going

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to look back on your time and space

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you know i'll i'll say it's hard to say

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that because there's been so many

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moments continually but i saw sunrise

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yesterday that like i've never seen a

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sunrise before in the visor you just

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have this big panorama and when you look

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out of the station windows it's

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incredible but there's modules and

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there's things in the way but sitting

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there on the foot restraint it was just

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you know my body sticking out and

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watching the sunrise was just incredible

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um it's like you're looking down on

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creation and uh

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and also butch and i both noticed that

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we saw shades of colors that i'd never

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seen before especially blue so i that's

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definitely going to stick in my mind

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forever

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and i think for me without question it's

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it's not the personal experience so much

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for me as it is you know we're we're

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we're giving loving caring beings that's

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that's what we are and to be able to

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share this experience has been what i'll

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remember the most you know the

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excitement to my wife and my daughters

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and my brother and my mom and dad and

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many friends and family about some

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pictures and some conversations that we

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have

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those are the things that i'll remember

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the most without question certainly i'll

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take the sights and the sounds and the

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pictures all together you can't have

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that without that but the sharing and

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the with the people that you love and

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care about is very very special very

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yeah i'm sure it is i'm sure that's

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quite an experience so we're about out

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of time i got one last question for you

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butch so we're here in alabama in the

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tennessee valley i know you're from

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tennessee you have anything you'd like

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to say to your southern neighbors here

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you know we love alabama stepping

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football season us tennesseans and and

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we know that

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alabamans don't live in god's country

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like us tennesseans do but you're very

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close very close cousins and we love

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y'all just the same so absolutely we

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all right thanks a lot butch and terry

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thank you so much for your time butch i

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hope you're safe return home in the next

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couple of weeks

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thanks a lot good luck with the rest of

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all right thank you and thank you to

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alabama and all of your wade tv

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station this is houston acr that

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