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comcast sportsnet this is mission

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control houston please call station for

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station this is comcast sportsnet how do

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we hear you loud and clear welcome on

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oh wow those are some great shirts um

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we are ready are you guys ready to speak

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we're ready

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all right guys thanks very much for

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joining us this is uh chick hernandez

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from bethesda maryland you guys way

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above me uh can you can you tell us what

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we are right over australia where it's

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in the very middle of the night we're in

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the outback of western australia right

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with the southern lights just off to the

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it's incredible terry listen you arrived

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at the international space station in

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december and

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will remain there until next month scott

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you arrived last month and we'll be up

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how do you both mentally prepare for

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well i'll tell you one of the things

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that helps is knowing that you're going

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to be here as long as you know the

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much like our military folks that deploy

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gets you in the mind that you have an

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going to be i'll let scott answer that

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because for a year that's obviously a

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what i need to make myself more

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comfortable what i need to do to manage

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my fatigue level uh over the long term

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if i was living up here for the first

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i just can't tell you by the way how

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this looks it's incredible to talk to

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you guys with the floating microphone so

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often my partner i feel is floating in

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his own mind and brian mitchell but this

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is a far different case here um

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considering how far we've come

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technology technologically speaking

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there's so many ways you can communicate

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people who are interested in what you're

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what is your favorite method of keeping

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helps people stay connected with nasa

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a kid i would love to have had twitter

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or instagram where you could see what

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astronauts are doing but um scott and i

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and it's a really important part of what

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the earth and in space and also just the

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daily science and other activities that

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so that's what twitter and instagram are

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scott you'll be in space for a year uh

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will they do the same test on him as

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space station over 400 different

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experiments and there's a lot of science

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has uh misha kornienko and myself as as

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the subjects and a subset of that is

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brother does participate in uh some of

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those data that the data collection for

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cat scans and mris that he

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he does as well coming to houston

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to get those and he also is

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cognitive studies that we do how this

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this uh extreme environment affects us

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uh study which is a

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small part of what we do here in uh you

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science picture on the international

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all right obviously you guys are sports

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fans i can see you sporting the jerseys

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there uh the astros i'm not sure about

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them by the way uh but terry i know you

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a big orioles fan obviously how do you

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first i have to say

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this is terry's astro t-shirt that he

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loaned me i'm an astros fan but not as

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much as terry because i forgot to bring

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yes i was born and raised an orioles fan

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houston astros fan having lived there

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for 15 years so i used to root for the

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orioles and astros world series but now

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highlights or entire games usually a

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my dad sends me emails of the score so i

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can it's been a little bit rough the

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one of the coolest things uh you guys

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do is tweet out photos of all the major

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league baseball cities from above and

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to see some some baseball

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down time for you guys and by the way if

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you want to go to a game call us here

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comcast sportsnet we can get you there

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what's the down time like for you guys

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in space at first when we throw each

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miss and so here scott's going to

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demonstrate and so that's what tends to

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happen when you throw something it goes

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least a few days before i'll be able to

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throw a ball or whatever and actually

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that's okay some guys down on earth

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having trouble throwing as well uh scott

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kelly terry verts we thank you so much

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for spending a little time with us we

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appreciate what you're doing above our

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earth uh and we look forward to catching

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thanks guys it's great talking everybody

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on the mid-atlantic we're both east

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coasters and so hello to all the folks

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here it's good to see that there's not

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and seeing some ball games and getting

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the comcast sportsnet