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oh

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okay

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so

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nasa chief astronaut bob bankin bob

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the soyuz is ready to fly uh scott kelly

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and mikhail kornienko ready to spend a

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year in space what is scott's level of

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preparation at this point his state of

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mind as he embarks on an historic

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mission

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scott is definitely ready to go for this

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one-year mission his previous time on

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orbit allowed him to really focus over

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the last year and a half or so to really

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get prepared his personal effects are in

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order and he's definitely definitely

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ready to go

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what is the biggest challenge in your

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mind

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for a crew member both from a

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physiological and psychological

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standpoint to leave the planet for a

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year leave his family and friends behind

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and tackle what will be a challenging

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year's worth of work on the station i

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think the thing that'll be most

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challenging for any of the crew members

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that go up whether it's for a six-month

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mission or for a one-year mission and

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scott has a very good perspective on

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this having already done a six-month

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mission is preserving enough flexibility

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to be prepared for anything that comes

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his way so over the year it's really

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hard for us to predict exactly what's

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going to be expected of him while he's

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on orbit you know we'll have vehicles

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that come and go we may have a

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contingency evas or otherwise that need

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to be put on his plate to go off and

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execute we can't say what all those

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things are going to be right now but

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being prepared for all of those

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eventualities i think is the most

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challenging thing being emotionally

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prepared for all those eventualities is

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the most challenging thing and i think

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scott's ready for that from an astronaut

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office standpoint bob

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what

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do you guys have to do to take extra

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care extra nurturing of a crew member on

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orbit for that period of time

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one of the things that we really want to

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make sure that we take care of scott

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with is is having some flexibility with

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his time on orbit you know during the

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the year that he's in space he'll go

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through four different increments and

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the ground teams associated with those

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different increments by the end of the

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fourth one or the beginning of the third

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one probably he'll have a pretty good

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perspective on what needs to be done and

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the timing and sequencing of things

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going forward and so retraining those

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ground teams and taking into account

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scott's experience so that he can

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contribute in that process as he goes

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forward is going to be really important

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and so it's something that we thought a

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lot about you know towards the later

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parts of the time he's on orbit we

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really want to make sure that he has an

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input he's got some flexibility to kind

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of tell the ground what the the next

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best steps are what the sequencing of

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activities should be so that he can be

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most efficient and get the most

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accomplished with the time that he has

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dr john charles nasa's chief of

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international science for the human

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research program

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john behind you is the soyuz vehicle

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that will transport scott kelly mikhail

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kornenko to the station to begin a year

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in space for you this must be a very

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important momentous milestone what are

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your feelings right now yeah rob we're

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very excited to be here this is a

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culmination of several years of work uh

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to see the investigations come together

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for this uh for this year-long mission

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hopefully paving the way for future

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missions like this that will then lead

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us on to mars so it's very exciting and

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personally fulfilling to be here today

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one of the things that you as a science

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team will be looking at

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from week to week month to month as this

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we'll be evaluating how the human body

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changes by measuring uh

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scott and mikhail's parameters on a

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fairly regular basis

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looking primarily for differences

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between the one-year mission and

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six-month missions previously that that

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uh constitute a large large database

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uh with this knowledge of of what

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changes we'll know what to focus on for

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future missions to be sure we're

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prepared for long duration missions off

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to mars

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what is it that makes scott kelly a

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unique subject to do this and uh

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how are you going to track all of this

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over the course of a year it's got to be

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an incredible undertaking

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well scott has proved to be an excellent

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test subject and an excellent operator

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of the investigation so far so we're

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very lucky to have him and of course one

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of his qualifications is the fact that

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he's flown previously in a six-month

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flight we'll be making many of the same

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measurements on scott on the one-year

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mission as we did on his previous

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six-month mission looking specifically

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for the changes that occur in the body

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that might be related to the longer

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duration in flight but his personal

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enthusiasm his dedication to the work

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has really made him an exemplary subject

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it's been just grand

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are you getting excited scott or

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you know i think a little bit

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you know there's a lot of things have to

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happen between today

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and friday and actually

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right now it's kind of you get on this

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like very quick train

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that is moving in one direction and

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but up until today it's been pretty

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so like right after this

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and tomorrow there's like press

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conference a

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state commission

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this movie that we watched let's say uh

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it's white sun and desert it's a

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you know a movie that the russians have

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been watching for years it's

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a tradition we watch that the next day

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we wake up at this launch day

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even though technically it's not but

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it's really the day you go to the pad so

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it's kind of wednesday wake up do some

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uh have breakfast

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do some pack your stuff take a nap we're

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actually going to go to the sauna

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right before we uh really

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sit in the body for a little bit

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very