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station this is buzzfeed how do you hear

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i think we're good so uh hey guys hey

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scott hey terry i'm excited to have the

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chance to speak with you guys on behalf

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of buzzfeed news

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now as you know today is a big day for

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nasa and we're celebrating 50 years of

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mission control houston as well of uh

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the 50th anniversary of the space walk

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and a lot of first has happened in those

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50 years you know the first space flight

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first base walk a man on the moon and

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now we have uh

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the first espresso machine in space so

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it sounds like you guys need a coffee

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yeah that's been a fun thing um scott

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and samantha enjoy coffee and it it's

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been pretty unique to have an espresso

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machine unfortunately we can't have it

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every day there's a limited supply and

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we're trying to save a few maybe for the

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next crew that comes up but uh that's

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definitely been a pretty cool first in

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now uh can you tell us a little bit

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about the the taste and the smell of

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that does it taste the same or does it

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yeah i think they did a great job on the

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i guess anyone who knows about making

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espresso it's pretty complicated as

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high temperatures high pressures and uh

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and and i think they got it right i'm

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not a big drinker of espresso on the

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ground but i've had it before and uh it

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tastes pretty good had a little

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frothiness on the top and everything so

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now terry you've been aboard the space

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station for several months now are you

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are you able to maintain a cultural

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connection with earth as far as

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entertainment goes you know sports music

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yeah we're in our seventh month now with

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anton and samantha here and one of the

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best ways that i've connected with earth

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recently has been watching baseball they

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the houston will ship up usually

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yesterday's baseball game or

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occasionally if it's an early day game

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they'll send up a live game when we have

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satellite coverage which is about half

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the time so

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that's been a lot of fun for me on earth

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i love keeping track of

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some of my favorite teams the orioles

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and the astros and so that's that's been

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really important to to keep in touch and

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we do have a we got a new tv screen

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saturday nights we'll watch a movie

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together with the crew or we'll watch

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like the daily news down there on that

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and so that's another good way to

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keep a part of earth up here in space

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and scott with you just being a few

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months into your year-long stay on the

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space station how do you prepare

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yourself emotionally and physically for

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being up there that long do you get

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homesick does your body have to uh

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the right word but there's certainly uh

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things you miss on earth

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mostly the people that that you love

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your friends your family

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even though there's been

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and texas lately and we certainly feel

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for those people and our our thoughts

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you know we do miss that the rain the

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things like that but for me having lived

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so um i'm trying to pace myself keep

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things in the right perspective

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and i uh hopefully i'll be in have the

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pretty much the same attitude at the uh

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in march at the end of this flight as i

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little bit about uh you know mars and

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how that would affect the the human body

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are there any like weird things that

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space uh that you expect to happen to

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your body and you know a year being up

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well there are things that we

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we know happen and things that we know

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the causes of them for instance the

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microgravity environment affects our

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our muscle mass and it's you know for

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the reason that our bodies are very

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smart and they kind of recognize

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that up here you don't really have a

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need for that much bone mass and muscle

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mass so it kind of gets rid of it but we

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can mitigate those effects with exercise

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and so far we've been able to do that

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very well people coming back from long

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generally increase their muscle mass or

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and their with regards to their bone

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mass you know a lot of them stay the

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but we know and understand that

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the radiation effects

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kind of a more cellular level with

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potential damage to our

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our dna rna proteins things like that

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uh experiments or some of the

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experiments that are comparing me to my

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brother in this so-called twin study

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involve uh research in that specific

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area there's also effects on our immune

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just doing an experiment in in the

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russian segment today where we're doing

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our vessels in our head our eyes

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other imaging techniques while using

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negative pressure device that the the

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first time an american astronaut has

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techniques and a very uh

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interesting and sophisticated experiment

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going on there for the last two days to

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understand this issue with our eyes and

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some of our buzzfeed news readers and

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one of the

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across was for terry

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how much time do you spend there in the

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not enough time usually it's uh in

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there's something interesting out there

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auroras are something really amazing

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watching the other modules on the

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the east coast of africa and there's

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seeing those those types of uh island

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reefs and shallow water

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enough um i think a lifetime of looking

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down on creation is not enough time to

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to see all this stuff

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yeah that's awesome and now uh i think

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now scott one more question

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uh we're going back to exercise and

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fitness how do you guys stay in shape do

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they think that you you burn more

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calories here some people think less

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twice a day six days a week uh aerobic

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exercise and weightlifting we have this

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testament to the engineering team and

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the exercise specialists we have on the

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ground helping us

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protect our health on these long

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excellent that's great i want to thank

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you guys for taking the time out of your

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busy day to talk to buzzfeed news and