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station this is houston are you ready

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smithson valley high school this is

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mission control houston please call

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station for a voice check

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thank you for being with us very very

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much we appreciate your taking the time

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this is a special occasion for 600 high

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i'm brandon wood a senior here at

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smithson valley and my question goes to

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both of you guys and it is um

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did you ever dream or aspire to become

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astronauts and also what was the feeling

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when you figured out that you were going

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well i'll start off and i'll let

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samantha answer the the second part uh

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the first

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dream that i had when i was a little kid

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was to be an astronaut the first book i

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ever read was about the apollo program

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and flying and especially space was

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something i was interested in

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since i was a just a kindergartner so i

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was i was pretty lucky to be able to

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the time you find out you're going to

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get selected to be an astronaut is

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different than when you get assigned to

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a flight and those are different

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feelings and i'll let samantha talk

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yes hello and thanks for the question

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yes i have also dreamt of becoming an

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astronaut since i was a little girl and

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so when i finally was selected to become

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an astronaut you know for me it was a

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dream come true

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aware of the fact that you know it was a

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goal that i had achieved but it was also

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the start of a new journey and so i

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started training i did basic training

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take until i actually got to go to space

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sometimes it takes many years and it

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took a few years in my case as well but

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not too many so i'm happy about that and

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when you finally get assigned you know

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it's like finally you're you're almost

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touching this dream in your hands you

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know that there is still a lot of work

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ahead but you are on a path and if

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everything goes well then you will

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actually fulfill that big dream and and

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get to space and actually arriving in

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space of course has been everything that

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i dreamed of and probably the happiest

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hello my name is colvazon i have a few

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questions for both y'all

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my first question is how long does this

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whole process take the second one is

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what are the dangers of this job and the

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third one is what made you want to do

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astronaut is a long one it starts when

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you're a little kid in in school

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school uh college and then even after

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that there's there's always some type of

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training or learning or studying that it

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seems like you go through

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but when it came time to apply to be an

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astronaut the application process was

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and they interview you to find out what

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kind of person you are and they do a lot

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of medical tests so just getting picked

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to be an astronaut is a long process

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training takes about a year and a half

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russian language and learn about the

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space station systems in my case i

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became an astronaut a long time ago and

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i learned how to fly the space shuttle

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that we learn how to fly

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waiting process to get assigned uh which

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flight assignments there are and how

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many astronauts there are and you get in

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line and you wait your turn

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and once you get assigned samantha and i

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a half years before we flew

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complicated space station it's about a

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million pounds and so there's a lot of

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lifelong process more than it is

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day-to-day basis where you are on the

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ground i do not think that it's a very

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dangerous job terry and i were both in

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the military before this uh flying jets

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basis that is uh more dangerous um

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of this rocket and there is hundreds of

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propellant that is about to ignite and

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uh chemically propellants and explosives

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a very controlled explosion or

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deflagration but it's really a

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controlled combustion and and so you

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rocket that kind of goes through your

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that energy that you have acquired

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through the rocket that have gotten you

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into space and have made you acquire all

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the speed that we have we travel at

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orbit but it's going to be a whole new

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biology biology or human physiology

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consists of and what information is

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that scans the inner structure of your

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japanese plant experiment to help us

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weightlessness and grow eventually in

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hi my name is mackenzie beckwith and my

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questions for terry how do you use the

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very carefully

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one of the most important one most

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important pieces of space technology we

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have is our toilet and the most

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important component in there is a fan it

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it uses airflow or ventilation

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to compensate for the lack of gravity

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and that air flow is very important to

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make sure everything goes in the correct

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direction and doesn't come back in the

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other direction so we have a hose

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and basically a big can and in both of

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those things like i said they have the

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airflow

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and you use them just like you would on

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earth and that airflow keeps everything

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in the right place and it's very

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important and when it breaks uh we're

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very interested in getting it repaired

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as quickly as possible so that's a big

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we kind of joke about it and everybody

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always asks that question but

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when we start going to the moon and mars

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and living in the solar system away from

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earth

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having a bathroom that works and is able

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to be repaired very easily is going to

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be really important that's a good

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hello my name is carlos i'm a junior and

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this question is for samantha

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she's the expert

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doing a flip is easy stopping at the

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all right thank you

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hi my name is antonia and my question is

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for terry

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how if at all and to what extent do

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language barriers hinder operations

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thanks antonio that's a very good

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question because as you know it's the

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international space station and we have

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samantha who's italian we have a couple

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of americans here myself and scott kelly

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and we have three russians here

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and everybody has different levels of

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language ability but we're all able to

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speak each other's language except none

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of us can speak italian but samantha

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speaks everybody's language so that's

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okay um

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i could say i could say pizza and a few

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words in in italian

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tiramisu yeah so but that that is

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something that we have to spend a lot of

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time preparing for before flight to

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learn russian because we launched in a

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russian soyuz spacecraft and a lot of

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the con that we do over there is in the

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russian language so

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the ability to learn languages i think

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is an important skill for astronauts in

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in today's world

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as we carry out these international

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uh colonel verts and captain crystal

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ferretti thank you both for being with

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us today

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we really appreciate your time we

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appreciate your knowledge and expertise

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as well

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and uh safe travels while you're at the

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space station and may you have a safe

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trip back to earth as well and we'd like

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to all give you a round of applause for

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thanks guys this was a lot of fun and

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this is just a this is a fun part of our

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day you had some great questions

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and hopefully we'll see you back in

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thanks again and goodbye

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station this is houston acr that

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thank you smith smithson valley high

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school and representative lamar smith

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station please stand by while we