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we're honored today to be in the office

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here in Moscow with general alexei

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leonov general thank you very much for

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spending the time with us today 2015

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represents two of the most important

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anniversaries in human spaceflight

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history they both involve you the 50th

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anniversary of man's first spacewalk

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and the 40th anniversary of Apollo Soyuz

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it's hard to believe that this much time

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has passed but looking back at that time

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what what did those days mean to you

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personally and are the memories of those

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accomplishments as significant today as

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they were when you lived through those

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fifty years ago and 40 years ago let me

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start with some events that took the

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least prior to that how did I happen to

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have become a part of this goal of this

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task very recently in minutes of one of

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the meetings we have found the following

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statement and this takes us back to mr.

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corridor running one of the meetings

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where they were supposed to shape up the

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actual first evie a session that I was

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supposed to be a part of and what he

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said about me yeah I would like to

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outline the most important feature his

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with his ability to quickly act new kagu

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his ability to guess correctly his

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ability to accept technical materials in

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character he's an artist he's very

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sociable he's very he's very courageous

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of different and I think that this

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person strongly deserves our that's what

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mr. konanov talking about me which I

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never knew and these words determined my

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my destiny and then the issue came up as

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to who is going to be the first one to

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go Evie a he said we do have this year I

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visited mr. Cole's daughter and she let

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me listen to recording on the first

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he said that in order for us to conquer

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the world this space we need to learn

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how to operate outside of this space in

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order to build space stations to provide

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each other with the proper decisions we

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need to learn how to work together with

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our but with the vehicles belonging to

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different countries and back that for

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the first time I mean they've heard to

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me that I was the one to make it and in

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this regard I strongly feel that I'm

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very happy because I managed to have

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resolved those that had an enormous

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impact on the subsequent activities in

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space I'm very glad that I was involved

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in those activities we are to look back

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at what was happening fifty years ago

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but I don't think you through anybody

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ever would have been able to actually

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sign that and this is something that

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Boris chair talk very famous engineer

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of Russia said once the most vivid

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impression of my life was but I found

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myself to be surrounded with the Stars

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enormous unbelievable silence which is

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something that comes back to me as that

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reminiscence of my first slide as you

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moved outside of the Voskhod spacecraft

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Pavel Belyayev your crew mate that was

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watching very carefully you wrote in an

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article for air and space magazine

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several years ago that you felt like a

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seagull with its wings outstretched

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soaring high above the earth what what

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was that experience like it was a very

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short space walk but you had great

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recollections of it well this feeling

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it's just the perception of space the

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perception of environment and what I saw

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and I saw just half of the world

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nobody even up until now nobody's flying

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that so I saw a radius of half of the

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planet of Earth and the ability to see

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the whole earth as a globe something

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that was extremely attractive and I

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could easily recognize the black sea rim

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the crime here bukhari

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looking baltic sea and it was all within

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to do with this the way that I have that

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show person with his hands white bread

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which is a symbolic presentation in the

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free flight this analogy is closer to me

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personal but once again these stars were

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very bright it was a lot of and it was

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interesting if they were everywhere they

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were they were beneath stars up in the

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sky in space we see smaller stars it was

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a very short space walk but in the brief

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time you were outside did you have a

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sense that you were making history that

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you were the the first the Pathfinder of

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space walk activity that later would

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become a standard and staple and very

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prior to the flight but during this life

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the only thing I could think was to

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concentrate and to perform

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everything that I was supposed I was

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thinking about this space I was thinking

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about the necessity to stay focused but

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not only was I thinking about the

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immediate step I was supposed to make

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but also on the next step but I never

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thought that I'm doing anything that is

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heroic otherwise it would end it

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probably badly well you are outside of

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the airlock of your spacecraft your

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spacesuit encountered a deformation if

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you will that threatened your ability to

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get back inside for a while

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how did you overcome this problem what

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was the problem and how did you overcome

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it to successfully in the spacewalk I

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was doing a lot of training in the

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vacuum chamber imitating the altitude of

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60 kilometers which is a deadly area for

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an average human being and I was lying

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in the chair trying to work out the

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belief in what I was wearing as a means

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of protecting up until now nowhere on

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the planet Russia worn in the United

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States we have any vacuum chambers to

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actually test the spacesuit to be flown

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on the elevations of 400 kilometers so

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we could expect almost anything the

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design of the spacesuit was rated as far

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as pressure for a nominal pressure of

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760 and then half of this pressure and I

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did have a device that would allow me to

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drop the pressure had it begin

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and I knew how to do that but I had to

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understand that if I decide to draw the

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pressure I could actually pose myself in

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two very deadly situation because the

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nitrogen in my blood would come to boil

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but once again I was trained to do that

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was I knew how to do it and then during

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the eighth I always Adhan realized that

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my fingers got loose and they kinda came

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off the glove that's and inside the

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glove I immediately realized that I have

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got to do something because I cannot go

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on with this spacesuit and particularly

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I will not I will not be able to return

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the vehicle because I had a tether which

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was five and a half meters long and I

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was supposed to roll it out and every 40

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minutes I had which I was supposed to

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actually put on I will not be able to

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get back to the airlock but with the

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gloves like this I was never able

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eventually I also need to remove the

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camera is a porridge and what's

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important that I was just levitated

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these days it's very very simple

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we put a crew member on a foot restraint

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with both hands available he can do it

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but back then there was no such a

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technique and we just didn't have

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guessed that this is something so I my

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one hand was always occupied with

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actually grabbing something in order to

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and during the eighth minute rest of the

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easy I've realized that the space suit

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was behaving in such a way that I cannot

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continue like this anymore and I will

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not be able to get back to the airlock

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something needed so what should i do

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what should I have done drop the

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pressure in five minutes I was supposed

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to be in English Eclipse

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with the gloves like that I will not be

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able to roll out this tether moocher and

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then I silently violating every single

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regulation without reporting anything to

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the ground I drop the pressure 2.27

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atmosphere at that point I realized that

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I'm gonna be in real trouble you're real

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sorry that I'm getting closer to the

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area where the nitrogen is supposed to

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come to boil or maybe not but I didn't

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have any choice yeah I didn't have any

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recourse and the way we do used to do

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this pressure in differential it was not

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a smooth process

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it was step by step so I've decided to

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go ahead and drop the pressure I was

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pure oxygen but everything came back to

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the gloves went back to normal and I

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felt different looks like the danger

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associated with this inadequate space

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suit was taken here and what I have done

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I removed and I tried to kind of break

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this place in order to get back to the

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air first went back into the airlock

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with my head first and I went inside I

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was supposed because in eventually I had

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to go to the vehicle with my legs if I

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would not have managed I was supposed to

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actually secure but before doing that I

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needed to make sure that nothing was the

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most difficult thing with the head and I

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really don't know how I managed to turn

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window with my lens first and I was

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running a field and I was sweating I

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could not see much because they would

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sweat and then when I eventually made it

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so without even closing the internal

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because sweat was common I mean if I

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decide to run 10 kilometers in my

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clothes I probably wouldn't have been

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sweating me I was running fever like I

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said so no everything happened the way

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it should and after that I was thinking

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for a long time

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what kind of sequences I would have to

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deal with violation of those rules and I

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but the most important thing that on the

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ground we've been doing a lot of

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rigorous training so I was prepared how

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to draw pressure I've done that because

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I'll pick the forelady of training

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although we never assume something like

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that is in fact going to but we have got

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to be prepared lexically enough you are

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a great man we appreciate your time