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station this is houston are you ready

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we are ready for the event

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challenger learning center international

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conference this is mission control

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houston

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a station

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it's mark here in san antonio and a

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whole group of

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how do you guys here

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hey we uh we have you loud and clear

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welcome aboard the international space

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hey scott thanks for doing this in the

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airlock so people can see the suits

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all right

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okay scott so we've got some questions

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down here i've got 12

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or 14 or so i know we have a very

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limited amount of time so i kind of want

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to get right into the questions but

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first of all

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tell us if you've seen any meteors i

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know that meteor shower was supposed to

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i may have seen one and got a picture of

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it but uh i wasn't absolutely certain so

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we're going to keep looking for them and

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hopefully we'll see something something

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all right and then tell us what you got

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next to us there floating in front of

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this is this is our

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our pet skittles there's a bunch of

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skittles in here and it just kind of

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at least you don't have to feed it

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take it for a walk

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all right so i'm gonna get sarah uh it's

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gonna sarah mclean who's 15 years old is

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yeah hello um i'm sarah my question is

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when did you know that you wanted to be

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an astronaut and is there anyone or

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anything along the way that helped

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inspire you or helped you reach your

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you know for me um you know when i was

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young in uh in elementary school i

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remember uh i was talking to a one of my

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classmates asked me what i wanted to do

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when i grew up and i don't remember what

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i said but he said that he wanted to be

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an astronaut and that was kind of the

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first time i thought about it and i said

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you know maybe i'll be an astronaut too

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and he said no

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you can't be an astronaut i'm going to

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be an astronaut that wasn't my brother

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but it was a another

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another uh friend and that kind of you

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know got me thinking and then it was

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just one thing i thought all along my uh

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you know my whole life growing up and uh

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this uh position now be able to do this

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and scott this is irene poro

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um many astronauts have reported that

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seeing the earth from space and in space

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can be a profound experience

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the shift has been

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called the overview effect

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could you comment on your experience in

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this regard and especially having been

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in orbit for months or soon for a year

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is a different experience than

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shorter mission

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well you never tire of looking at the

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earth i mean it's a

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you know incredibly beautiful planet and

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the things that are striking about it

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that when you when you look at the earth

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political borders you see only

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natural borders you know in some cases

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those natural borders separate countries

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planet earth which we are not you know

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particular any particular country so it

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we're all in this uh situation of life

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pollute it greatly like there's certain

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parts of asia that will fly over that uh

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a sense for you know how we need to take

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care of our environment better because

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it is very fragile the atmosphere looks

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hi i'm sheri barrera middle school

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science teacher my question is due to

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the physiological and psychological

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changes you have encountered in space do

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thank you for the the question sherry

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and we certainly do have uh a number of

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physiological and uh psychological

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changes that i think that occur over the

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time that we're in space um i've found

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that i sleep very well up here and i

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don't really dream any differently

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the thing that i do discover

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specifically about sleeping is that when

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the lights are off and when i wake up in

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the morning when the alarm goes off

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like i'm upside down or i feel like i'm

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hanging from the ceiling and it takes a

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little bit of time i have to turn the

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lights on to really kind of orient

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myself to where i am

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good morning i'm federico zaragoza

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greetings from san antonio texas

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what are the most common misconceptions

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about living on the international space

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you know that's a that's a really uh

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difficult question uh for me to answer

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i've never been asked that question

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before and most questions that i'm asked

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congratulate you for coming up with a

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good one

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you know i don't really know what the

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public's perception of life is up here

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is that we work really hard you know we

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work from the time we get up until

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goes along with living and working in in

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space and taking care of this space

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that people

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you know don't recognize it is uh

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somewhat of a harsh environment to live

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in you know for instance we don't have

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running water so we can't uh you know

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gets a little bit old but it's also at

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the same time you know it's surprising

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what you can get used to and the fact

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that everything floats like skittles

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makes it uh you know makes it hard to do

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things things become uh you know very

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difficult to you know what might be

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considered a simple task takes a lot

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hello my name is justin hutchison i'm 11

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years old and my question is what are

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the challenges of exercising in

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ground some engineers that developed the

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exercise equipment for us to use up here

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exercise is incredibly important to keep

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our bodies healthy and strong so that

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we're ready that our bones are strong

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that our muscles are strong when we

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return back to the earth and so we have

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exercise and so we actually have to wear

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a harness to hold us down onto the

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treadmill while we're running otherwise

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resistance exercise too exercise for our

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muscles like lifting weights but there's

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special kind of a universal gym that

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uses cylinders evacuated cylinders and

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vacuum in order to provide the

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resistance and we can do all sorts of

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wondering and you touched on it a little

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bit but about your sleep patterns on

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different because you're sleeping

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study and i don't have my my sleep watch

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pressure of the blanket you know that

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walking around or sitting position and

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uh of my last flight so i think i've

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been here about 140 days my last flight

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different feeling now it doesn't feel

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although i feel like i've been here a

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long time and i'm gonna be here even

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longer

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uh about another you know over over 200

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days i don't have the same uh feeling of

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uh you know fatigue and getting uh

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you know getting to the end of this

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mission as i did at this uh same point

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last time and i think that's part of you

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know what your brother asked the the

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kind of the mental you know preparation

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and training for this i recognize that

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i'm going to be here for a whole year a

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year is a long time so my my

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hi my name is stacy shrewsbury and i'm

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asking this question on behalf of susan

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evans we're from the challenger learning

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center at heartland community college

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what advice do you have for today's

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youth about choosing a career in stem

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hi stacy that's a it's a great question

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you know education in stem is so

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important

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um the science technology uh engineering

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math all these things uh really

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contribute really to what we've been

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able to create up here in the

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international space station this amazing

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national laboratory um that's uh

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an international partnership

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um but i think you really need to

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encourage kids to just pursue what it is

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that they're interested in i think it's

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important to

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to emphasize math and and technology and

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and uh those sorts of things but to find

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something that they have a passion for

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and can and can really dig into and

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that will provide something of interest

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hello my name is tristan garcia my

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question is dear experience so far in

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space what advice would you give the

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astronauts leaving tomorrow if they're

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what the advice i would give to uh

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to folks leaving on a trip to mars is

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you know they really know how to have to

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know how the systems on the the vehicle

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work you know there's a lot of

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maintenance we do here

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you know even though these systems are

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generally pretty robust and work well

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there are times when they're going to

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have to fix them

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they're not going to have the same type

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of communication

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that we have here with the mission

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control centers around the world to help

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so they're going to have to live

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much more in an autonomous way because

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of the time delays that are involved and

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it would be very impractical for us to

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do some of the repairs we do if we had

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to ask the ground a question and we

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wouldn't get the answer for you know 30

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minutes for example so knowing how to

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fix the systems knowing how the systems

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operate

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would be a very uh important piece of

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advice i would give to anyone leaving on

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hi i'm i'm cindy glenn from any isd

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school district in san antonio and i

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teach technology my question for you is

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what kind of technology like ipad laptop

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smartphone do you use mostly on the iss

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and are there any differences from

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thanks cindy we have uh lots of

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technology up here of course we have

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laptops and computers all over the place

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that they're really our main interface

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with the systems here on the space

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station we have tablet computers that we

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use as well and

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and so we have technology throughout

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here that help us on a daily basis i'd

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say a couple of the the biggest

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differences that

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compared to using them on earth uh for

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one

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anytime you're using a laptop you have

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to secure yourself to the ground

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um hook your feet under some some

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hand rails otherwise as soon as you

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start tapping on the keyboard you're

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just going to float away

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for the tablet

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in order to change the orientation

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you know

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on the earth when you change the

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orientation the there are sensors inside

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it that automatically sense which way

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the the tablet is facing whether it's

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porch or a landscape and i found up here

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if i want to have a different

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orientation i actually have to spin

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around

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and try and generate some g's on the

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tablet in order to make it change its

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greetings gentlemen i first want to say

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thank you for this opportunity we know

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you have a very busy schedule and we

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really do appreciate you taking your

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time for doing this

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my name is michelle rissy and my

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question is if you could change one

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thing on the international space station

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of your experience what would it be and

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i would have more people up here you

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know i'd like to have my family friends

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uh my kids you know

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people to uh

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share this experience with i'm actually

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very fortunate i can you know share it

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with my brother although we've never

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been in space together it's it's great

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it's uh you know a real privilege having

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uh him to

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to talk about uh this great experience

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and what it's like and and share that

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with him but you know having other

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people

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uh to have the opportunity to come up

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here is something that uh that i would

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change like i said it is a is a

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privilege to be able to do this and uh

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you know the more people that do it the

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better and i think that would be a

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great thing if we could change that

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hopefully we will someday and hopefully

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good morning i'm melissa from the

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challenger learning center in paducah

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kentucky and we just finished our first

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ever underwater iss camp where they

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built a big size model as they would in

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the nbl so what is the one thing you

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believe we should absolutely be teaching

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well i think uh

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it's one of the things that we learn up

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here that this kind of endeavor is not

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something that uh one person can do on

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their own that just our team up here can

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do on its own we have a huge network of

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support

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on the ground in countries all over the

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world and the success that we have up

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here in the experiments that we do and

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the maintenance that we do um in the

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construction that we've been able to do

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has come from teamwork so i think taking

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um that lesson and really employing that

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and and having the students recognize

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how important it is to be able to work

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as a team um to have somebody that is

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able to leave lead and somebody and

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folks that are able to follow

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effectively and communicate well

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together you know those are all lessons

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that we see every day here on the space

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station um and then in the human

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spaceflight

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program hi i'm john from the town of

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ramaphote challenger center in rocklin

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county new york and my question is what

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is the hardest thing to adjust to when

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as the as the rookie i'm going to answer

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that one because uh it's still all very

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fresh for me you know i think the the

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hardest thing for me is just keeping

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things organized every time i uh anytime

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we get tools out to use the

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use tools or we take something apart

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just keeping track of all the different

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pieces and not having them float away um

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is incredibly difficult and i've found

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that you have to be very organized uh

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you have to keep things

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in in bags or

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taped to the wall to make sure that you

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don't lose pieces because you know

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something that's floating in front of

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you

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be completely gone and so just learning

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how to how to stay organized and be

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efficient has has been a challenge for

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me

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hey scott and shell thank you so much

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for doing this houston is telling us on

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this end that we are done

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uh we really really appreciate you

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taking the opportunity the time out of

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your day uh to answer all these great

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questions for the challenger learning

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center so thank you very much and scott

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hey it was our pleasure

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the event thank you

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and thank you chandra learning center

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international conference station we're