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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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cbs news this is mission control houston

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please call station for a voice check

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station this is bill harwood cbs news

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hear you loud and clear bill we're doing

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great

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hey thanks a lot i really appreciate you

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taking the time to chat with us today

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and and scott i think i'm going to start

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with you i mean

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standard question for a guy up in space

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for nearly a year how's it going i mean

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you're nearing the halfway point anyway

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yeah things are going great uh in about

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two weeks i'll come up on the uh

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the amount of time i was here uh on my

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flight last time which was 159 days i

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think i'm about 143 right now

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have a lot of energy i'm

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think i have a pretty good attitude

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about it a year's a long time but i'm

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still uh you know looking forward to the

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the rest of this flight and we got a lot

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of great great things coming up that

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we're gonna do and it's uh you know it's

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been a great experience so far

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well you know as someone looking in from

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the outside you know in a couple of

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weeks gennady padalka your soyuz

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commander is going to be heading back to

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earth and you and mikhail kornienko of

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course are going to be staying to

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complete your mission and it strikes me

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that'll be quite a moment i mean most

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astronauts would be thinking about

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coming home right now or packing or

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something like that but you and mikhail

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looking ahead to what amounts to an

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new mission um i just wonder how you

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look at that how you process that seems

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well i think misha and i'll both be very

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upset with gennady when he leaves us and

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maybe a little bit envious but uh

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you know i think that's i'm just kind of

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i'm kidding there but uh you know

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gennady we'll definitely miss him he's a

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great crew member been has been a great

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commander um

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but i think it i think your perception

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and and what you're you're anticipating

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uh you know how you know the length

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important and kind of you know maybe

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affects your fatigue level i think there

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is that kind of two-thirds uh

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you know when you get two-thirds of the

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way into something you can you can start

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seeing the end from where you are that's

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maybe in a flight like this the fatigue

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that was really just at the at the three

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or four month point that would happen

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my expectation coming this was it was a

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year so uh you know i don't feel like i

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should be coming home right now which is

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yeah i think so you know you've been

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interview and i like your your strategy

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of i guess you count up instead of

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you mentioned you still have a lot of

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energy and you're positive is there

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anything that is wearing on you a little

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he he puts it very well he says when

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being in space and when you're in space

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you know i do sense a little little bit

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of that but uh you know i understand the

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importance of this mission we're doing a

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lot of great stuff up here a lot of

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science 400 different science

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experiments while i'm here over the

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years so uh you know i just recognize

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and uh you know i'm excited to be a part

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well let me ask you one more quick one

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about science before i get to chell here

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uh i don't want to ask you to review all

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the signs you guys are doing up there

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because we'd be here for days but i will

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ask you about the vision research i know

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you were doing some of that earlier

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today or at least so i was told i'm just

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curious is there anything going on with

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data uh although i actually got my some

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the 2020 kind of data i was just curious

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thinking about maybe on a spacewalk not

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wearing my glasses which uh you know i

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that's fascinating uh cell let me ask

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years and years on the road to becoming

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an astronaut and now you're 25 days or

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us a sense of your first impressions i

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mean what were you thinking that first

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day aboard station when you were finally

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alone at the end of the day

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kicking back and just knowing you were

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this really kind of represents for a lot

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of people that come up here a dream come

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true and i mean this is just a

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incredible place to be an incredible

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that we see on television you know we

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train in a mock-up in uh in houston but

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the crew that i came up with um oleg and

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novel and and new but you know we i

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experience and so i try and keep in

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touch with friends and family through

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twitter and through social media just to

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several months in terms of station

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resupply with those back-to-back

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failures of a progress in april and then

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a spacex dragon cargo ship you guys have

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had a successful progress flight since

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then

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but how important is tomorrow's japanese

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htv launch to build up the station's

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it's pretty important you know uh we're

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we're in good shape right now

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but uh

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you know if for some reason htv didn't

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get here we we get pretty low on certain

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consumables uh probably in late

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september early october

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time frame i'm sure we would figure out

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ways to bridge the gap on those uh those

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things and get us to a uh

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you know orbital or spacex which

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everyone makes it first or even you know

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get some supplies up here on a progress

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but if for some reason you know htv gets

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delayed for a significant amount of time

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or something else happens we do uh we do

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run into some issues at that point you

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know we've been pretty good about

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dealing with those things and and i'm

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sure we will you know we would figure

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out a way around it but it is a very

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important launch for us coming up

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well i misspoke obviously that launches

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wednesday not tuesday but but you know

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one of the questions i jotted down was

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could station support a six-man crew

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six-person crew i should say

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if you had another resupply failure this

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calendar year i mean no one expects that

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obviously but if it happened

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do you think you could keep six people

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up there in in terms of the work around

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you're talking about do you think

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there'd be some chance you might have to

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you know um

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of course as as scott said this is this

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is an important launch this atv htv

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launch is important but um i'm confident

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the ground would uh

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find figure out ways to to make sure

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that we stayed supplied

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and uh

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capabilities that we need to to do the

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science and the work up here that we

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need to do

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um and if we didn't have enough supplies

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we'd have to deal with that deal with

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that situation when it came up

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well of course uh you know commercial

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resupply

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of station operations you know nasa is

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also developing commercial cruise ships

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uh to end the sole reliance on the soyuz

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but congress seems reluctant to fund

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that program you know it's almost like a

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catch 22. you know congress is saying

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soyuz contract extensions are evidence

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the agency doesn't have confidence in

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boeing and spacex that they'll get there

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nasa is saying well we have to extend

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soyuz because congress hadn't funded us

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what's going on there i mean how

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important is getting commercial crew up

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and running are you guys worried about

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you know i think you know everything you

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said is is pretty much true you know we

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we need funding to get a commercial crew

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capability and and you know we didn't

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get what we asked for this time and then

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we had to

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you know secure some more uh soyuz uh

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seats through extending that contract uh

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to have our crew members get up here so

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commercial crew is very important to us

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you know if uh you know i

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hope we'll get there with the current

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funding i don't think we'll get there on

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the current uh schedule obviously

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um or the schedule that we we would have

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liked but uh it is very important and um

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you know hopefully you know people will

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recognize this and uh and give nasa the

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support we need to get it done

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are you at all worried that uh

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this funding scenario might might force

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nasa to down select to just one provider

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you know i really hadn't considered that

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i you know i'm not involved in the

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commercial crew

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program right now at least and

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you know i had not given that much

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thought but uh

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you know now that you mention it yeah

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that is a uh you know obviously that

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would be a concern and that i think

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would maybe be a likely outcome that

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kind of makes sense that if you don't

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have enough money you might have to down

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select to one sooner than you would like

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and i

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would imagine that that would eat into

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some of your you know your margin for

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success you know if you have two uh

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vehicles being built and one of them

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doesn't work out

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um you know you still got the other one

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and down selecting earlier than we like

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would probably uh you know make that a

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uh

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i wouldn't say necessarily less safe but

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uh you know less a uh you know less of a

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likelihood that we'll get the vehicle

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that we want in the time that we would

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want if we have to make those decisions

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sooner

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well just one more along those lines uh

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you know one of the

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criticisms i guess from some politicians

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anyway is the nature of commercial

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contracts is they worry about safety

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lack of oversight at nasa and safety but

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you guys are the ones who are going to

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be trusting your lives on these things

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what are your thoughts about flight

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safety are you guys

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comfortable with the the commercial

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contracting

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you know that's a that's an interesting

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question so

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you know we call this a commercial crew

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capability and

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you know nasa didn't build the space

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shuttle the space shuttle was built by

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rockwell with uh you know pretty

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significant nasa oversight but you know

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boeing built the space station i mean

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most of the

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the usos hardware up here is uh boeing a

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lot you know lockheed martin a bunch of

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different aerospace companies nasa

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generally doesn't cut metal on things

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and put things together we we manage the

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programs we design

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uh we test

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but as far as the actual building that

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is has been you know throughout the

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history i think of the space program

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less left to commercial companies now in

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this case we're doing something

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different in that we're not having as

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much oversight and we're not the manager

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of the program so

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um there

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you know it is it is conducted

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differently so

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uh you know we have to put different

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kinds of safeguards into things but

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you know like i said earlier i'm not

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that familiar with the details but i

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think

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you know safety is very important to

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nasa it's one of the our most important

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things it if not the most important

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thing and i think we are putting the

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appropriate safeguards to build a

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vehicle with a commercial contractor

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without the kind of typical or

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historical oversight that we've had

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well thanks let me uh i've got about

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four minutes left i want to shift gears

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once again and ask you a question about

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social media which is playing an

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increasing role it seems i mean i sit

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here on my computer every day and see

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pictures you guys uh tweet out which are

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pretty stunning i was i'm especially

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impressed by those night shots you guys

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take of the aurora and star fields

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against the lamb of the earth that sort

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of thing

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how do you do that how do you pull off

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those shots they're really quite

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spectacular

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well like i said previously you know

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that's one of the the joys up here is to

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get to share some of the views that we

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get to experience

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and so first of all we get great

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training on the ground and cameras and

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and using uh the video cameras and the

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other assets that we have up here we've

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got uh great uh equipment up here to to

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use and we've got great views i mean

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um

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we're above the atmosphere and so we

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have these clear views of the stars and

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uh and really spectacular views of of

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some of the phenomenon that uh that you

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don't quite get to behold on the ground

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the auroras you know you get if you're

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lucky and live in the southern

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hemisphere extremes

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you might get to see the aurora but to

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be up here and to get to see kind of the

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the oversight of it is pretty amazing

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scott how about you you sent down some

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truly spectacular sunset and sunrise

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pictures that uh a couple of those that

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yeah those are you know some of the the

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pictures we take that's how it looks

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with your eyeball like the the sunrise

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and the sunset others the camera

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obviously makes it look better you know

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like the aurora i mean aurora is

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spectacular with looking at it with your

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eyes but the camera does in the settings

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of the camera ken does make it look

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better same thing with some of the earth

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shots the earth's spectacular but you

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know the way you use the camera can can

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enhance that and uh you know i think

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people enjoy that people like you know

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beautiful pictures and uh you know if we

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could make them a little bit more

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beautiful with the equipment we have up

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here you know i think that's you know

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some artistic license i take and uh i'm

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glad you know people like yourself and

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other people enjoy it

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yeah no question about that well listen

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i've got one last question or time for

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one last question and i'll go back to

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politics one last time i'm sure that's

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your favorite topic but anyway you know

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space hasn't really been on the

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political agenda so far with the

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presidential candidates uh donald trump

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said over the weekend that he thinks a

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flight to mars would be quote wonderful

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but quote i want to rebuild our

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infrastructure first which

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i don't know what to make of that but

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anything anything you guys would like to

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say to all the folks that are

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out there throwing their hat in the ring

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for president about space and uh

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and the need to

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well you know historically nasa's gotten

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not universally bipartisan support but

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we do we do get bipartisan support and

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uh you know we really appreciate that

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um

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you know we could always use more money

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uh you know we're gonna do the best with

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the money we're given and uh you know

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when you look at the overall uh budget

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of the uh you know the u.s budget

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nasa gets a very small part of that and

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uh

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and you know i think space is an

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investment in our future i think you

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know what we get from even you know

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building a space station

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uh the economic return the science

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return is very very important to uh you

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know to our nation to our economy so

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you know i would like to see all the

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candidates really support us and i think

551
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they you know they probably do uh in in

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some regard but also support a a a

553
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bigger budget like you were talking

554
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about with the uh you know the

555
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commercial crew and being able to you

556
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know build that vehicle on the on the

557
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time frame that we uh

558
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we we need to to uh you know to support

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our our space station missions and our

560
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you know our our future missions you

561
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know we need we need to be able to put

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that money into the the us economy into

563
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u.s companies aerospace companies uh

564
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versus sending it overseas so i hope i

565
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hope they would see that

566
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guys thank you very much i got to wrap

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up i look forward to talking to you

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again down the road and

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station this is houston acr that

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thank you cbs news station we are now