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all right now thank you so much it's

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just been over a month since NASA

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year-long stay on the International

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involves his identical twin brother Mark

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Kelly and both brothers are with us this

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morning Scott is aboard the

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International Space Station and marks a

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bit closer he's a former astronaut NBC

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Space analyst is right here with us in

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the studio good morning to both of you

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good morning Savannah well we've got you

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here mark but I'll turn my first

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question to Scott you're up in space I

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know you're just going over the Bahamas

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right now how is your first month going

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you're one month down 11 more to go yeah

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so far so good when I got here about I

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think it's been about 40 days ago I

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almost felt like I had never left it's

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amazing how your body adapts to this

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environment and how it remembers

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actually being here so you know even

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though there's a long road ahead of me

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I'm feeling pretty good about the whole

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thing so far five other astronauts

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aboard the space station with you I'm

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imagining an episode of the real world

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how is it actually going up there how do

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you guys getting along and Penn how's

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your work going more importantly yeah we

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get along great you know we're all

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professionals we're in this together

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it's you know it's a tough environment

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to live in but you know as a team we we

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get through it and our works going great

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work on the space station itself pretty

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modules around and kind of reconfigure

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this is like it's kind of a dream come

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true for NASA because you have two

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genetically identical individuals one

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spending a year in space one down here

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on earth tell me about I guess the

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possibilities that this creates for NASA

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researchers well let me let me first

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back up why we're doing this

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so we have a good sense of what it takes

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to fly in space for six months but if

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one day we want to go to Mars or some

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other destination in the solar system we

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we know what the engineering is to do

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that we don't know a lot about the human

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body so Scott's spending a year in space

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and NASA studying both of us because we

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are genetically the same that's that's

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the guinea pig on earth and there's a

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lot of blood draws a lot of MRIs

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professional drawing his blood and doing

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the reasons scientifically that you are

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now aging a little faster than your

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general theory of relativity so yeah

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party trick Scott as we as we leave you

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months older he's really only six

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event please stand by for YouTube

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questions hello I'm Hank so you're

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scientific experimentation here and you

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through the air and some s and I was

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wondering if you might be able to do a

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demo for us on the ISS thanks for your

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time and I hope you enjoy your year in

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space yeah I guess what you're talking

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about is how this Leatherman tool is

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then flip over so I hope that was a good

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demonstration I'll do it again here real

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quick as we go to the next question and

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from the youtube channel Vsauce I'm

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asking this question from Toronto

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Ontario and my question is about

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cosmic-ray visuals I've heard that up in

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space stray cosmic rays can cause you to

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see flashes of light has that ever

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happened to you and if so what does it

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look like you know the first time I saw

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those was on my Hubble Space Telescope

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mission in 1999 the Hubble flies a lot

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higher than the space station so we can

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see a lot more of those cosmic rays I

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would see you know on order of maybe

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like 50 an hour but the space station is

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lower and a little bit more protected

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from those and you see them much less

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frequently although I'll see you know

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maybe a few each night in my previous

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experience with Hubble they were very

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much more distinct and would kind of

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look like they were just white flashes

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of light like a firework that was kind

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of radial towards the center of my eye

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now they seem a little bit different and

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I don't know if that's because of the

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altitude we're at but a little bit more

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not as well-defined not and kind of more

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random in in you know how they streak

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across my field of view I guess I should

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say but you know I was thinking about it

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last night when I saw one thinking about

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hey not only is this thing going across

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my visual field but it's also going

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through my brain hey Scott is Destin

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from smarter every day enjoyed working

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with you hope to do it again drop me an

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email if you're interested quick

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question what kind of watch do you wear

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I know you have two but I don't know why

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what features are important when an

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astronauts watch stay safe up there

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commander hey Destin good to hear from

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you so normally the watch I wear up here

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is an omega watch because one reason the

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Omega is good is because it has a very

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loud alarm it has a light that is very

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bright it's one that was designed for a

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space light you could almost use as a

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flashlight and if

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it's really dark like in the evenings

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today I'm wearing a Breitling that my

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brother gave me because I was just

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talking to him on The Today Show

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so but I normally don't wear this watch

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during the working day and the other one

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is a sleep study watch that Misha and I

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have to wear the whole time we're up

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here which measures acceleration in

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other words whether you're moving around

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or not and light so it can tell you know

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pretty accurately when we're asleep and

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when we're awake hi this is Hank again

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so imagine when the thrust of that last

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rocket stops and you become weightless

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for the first time of the journey

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it feels initially like you're falling

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because that's what you're doing you're

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really falling around the earth and

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missing it for a year it's that moment

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when the airplane drops in the

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turbulence are you at the top of the

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roller coast can you feel that feeling

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in your stomach that's what I imagine it

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feels like when did that feeling stop or

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does it stop or do you just feel like

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you're falling forever well on launch it

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it stops pretty quickly you know I think

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some people don't even ever experience

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it I don't really feel that way for long

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I'm launched after the engines cut off

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and you first experience microgravity

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you know however you know I can go in my

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crew quarters at night when it's dark

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and I'm getting ready to go to sleep and

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close my eyes and you know convince

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myself I do have a feeling of falling

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but it takes a little bit of effort but

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we are we're you know that's why

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everything floats here is because no

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it's not because we're so far away from

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Earth and the gravity is low it's

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because we're all in freefall around the

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earth at the same time so I can convince

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myself that I feel that although I don't

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feel it right this second as I'm talking

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to you hi I'm Larry Cole I travel the

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world filming videos for my YouTube

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channel and doing what you're doing

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staying up on the International Space

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Station is the biggest adventure I could

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imagine and I'm sure it has been for you

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but if you could travel to anywhere else

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in space any solar system or planet

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you know people normally ask you know if

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you could travel to any other place in

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our solar system and then I generally

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say Mars but the way you posed the

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question I think if I could go anywhere

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we would probably be to a planet that

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astronomers and scientists have just

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determined is most like Earth and you

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know to see what's really there you know

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if there are living creatures or you

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know just how that planet is evolved and

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how similar it really is to our home

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planet station and this is Houston ACR

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that concludes the event thank you my

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pleasure thank you NBC Today and YouTube