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a unique opportunity for you this

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is literally out of this world thanks to

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nasa we are able to talk with local

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astronaut and commander of expedition 43

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terry verts while he is aboard the

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international space station as he lives

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and works in space commander

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uh so many questions for you that we

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have here you have been in space for

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months now and you've been working with

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an international crew and you're part of

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a 15-year production here as the

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international space station continues to

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grow in fact that's happening this

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november so what do you and the crew

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well we discuss all kinds of things like

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four months i'm here with italian

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astronaut samantha christopher ferretti

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and russian cosmonaut anton shkaplerov

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have dinner lunch together as often as

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we can and

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topics range from what are we going to

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do when we get back to earth to how did

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your day go that day and i'm trying to

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explain baseball and football to them so

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there's all different kinds of topics as

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attire right now obviously a baltimore

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fan right here from columbia maryland

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love the o's jersey uh so i'm sure that

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baseball is one of the topics right now

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but um let's get back to before i get to

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that i really want to talk to you about

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the research that the crew is doing what

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are you guys most proud of that you're

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what are we most proud of well there's

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been so much different research that

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we've done uh just about every

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discipline from science is covered here

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we're doing biology human research we're

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doing physics experiments there's

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something on the outside called an alpha

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magnetic spectrometer that's looking for

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dark matter and dark energy in the

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universe it's a really fascinating

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experiment we're doing material science

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things that can help produce better

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materials on earth and also better

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spaceships one in particular that i

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worked on is going to help help make

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spaceship fuel tanks more efficient so

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we can get every drop of fuel out of

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uh scientific discipline we we've done

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most proud about is the diversity of

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i i agree with that and um now i know

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that we were we were able to take you

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live just a few weeks ago while you were

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your three six hour space walks out

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there and you were working on things now

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doing out there but if you're out in

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space for six hour shifts um can you

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inboard the space station is

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unbelievable we have several different

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windows and there's one in particular

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and all you have is that thin visor

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between you and the universe and all of

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creation it's it's truly amazing

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the direction of the sun and so it was a

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sunrises and sunsets were just

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remarkable i wish i could describe it

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well you've been doing a great job on

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social media sending out some of those

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samples but i want to talk to you a

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little bit more about the

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the gym that's on board now i know that

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the international space station is

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compared to a six-room house but i also

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found out that there's a gym on board

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it's not just so that you guys can stay

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in shape and look good while you're

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doing interviews there's a little bit

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more to it tell us about that research

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that's a perfectly timed question my

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crewmate samantha christopher freddie

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so we spend several hours every day

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doing aerobic and anaerobic exercises

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weight in space but we use a vacuum

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system that kind of acts as a spring to

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generate weight and that's very

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important to keep our bodies in shape if

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you spend a lot of time in

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weightlessness your muscles and your

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bones would atrophy so through

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the exercise that we do we've learned

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after having 15 years of people coming

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back to earth we're in good shape a

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little dizzy the first few days but your

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your body is very strong and able to

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spend time in space and get back to the

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earth and so it's a great accomplishment

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of the space station it's proved that

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humans can live in space and then go to

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a planet and not only survive but

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all right commander i know that you're a

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father of two yourself one last question

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for you right here my my children 11 and

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8 year old both had questions for you if

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one asked about the food because we saw

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one of your turkey sausage burritos

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floating on there so we want to find out

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how good the food is my eight-year-old

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wanted to know do you ever push one of

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the wrong buttons there because there's

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so much that seems to be around you

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while you're floating around have you

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ever hit something wrong and that's my

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really important to have something

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different so you're not eating the same

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thing every day and as far as pushing

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being here is that every day all day

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long you're doing

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to make sure that you're doing the right

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mistakes and yes i have pushed the wrong

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nothing nothing bad has happened and the

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mistakes that i've made have all been

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commander thank you so much for your

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i uh i follow your tweets just fast

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so i follow your tweets and just

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absolutely fascinating what do you think

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when you tweet pictures of maryland and

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in dc you have to look at them with such

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it's really cool for lack of a better

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word to see your home from space and

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it's very recognizable especially the

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chesapeake bay you can pick that out

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and maryland is a beautiful state

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the whole earth is a beautiful earth and

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there's lots of different colors and

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aspects of all these different regions

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i recognize places on earth by color

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maryland is especially beautiful it's

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been really white this winter i think i

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uh space talk about that shark that

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you're wearing right there that orioles

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shirt and i saw somebody gave one to you

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for your birthday while you were up

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there if you could send a message to the

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o's who are training right now what

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i would say go o's best team uh in the

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american leagues for the last three

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years i think the most number of wins

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and it's been so much fun being an

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orioles fan the last few years with buck

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and all the great players that we have

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and there's lots and lots of fans out

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there we're very proud of what you've

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last year was great but we're really

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looking forward to winning that last

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your mother and i have been sending

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messages back and forth on social media

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her last message to me this morning he

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wanted to do this from the time he was

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born i'm proud of the man he is

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extremely down to earth for a guy who

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loves to fly so high and that has to

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mean a lot to you hearing that from mom

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that's that's awesome yeah mom is always

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mom no matter how old you are no matter

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what you do and i know she's been very

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proud of me and this is something i've

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wanted to do since i was a little kid

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my mom and my dad my stepdad all worked

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at nasa goddard there in maryland and so

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it's been kind of just flying in

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aviation and space has been something

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i've been interested in since i was a

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well we are all proud of you

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congratulations on all of your success

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and we look forward to many more tweets

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posts everything in between thanks so

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much and we'll see you when you get back

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thank you very much uh hello to all the

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folks there in maryland and pennsylvania

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virginia d.c that area looking forward

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to coming back in a few months when i