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we have an out of this world opportunity

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this morning astronaut joe lingard has

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spent a lot of time in our area well now

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he is living and working in space and

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nasa is making tel available live from

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the international space station this

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morning i'll remind you since this is

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live from space there will be a

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significant delay all right tell we

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spoke before you went up to space tell

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well thank you so much uh for having me

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this morning you know that uh the trip

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on the rocket was amazing uh that's the

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first time that i've had the opportunity

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to do that um and what an amazing

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feeling to uh finally make it into

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microgravity the the rocket ride itself

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was pretty thrilling but making it into

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and that's what i want to know how do

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you adjust to life without gravity have

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well it is it's a lot of fun to be up

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here you know i think when people think

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about living and working in space of

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course weightlessness is is the first

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thing you think of it's so much fun to

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float you know we're getting pretty good

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around about moving around the space

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station without crashing into too many

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things

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but it's also challenging you know when

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you're working with tools and you're

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working with equipment you have to find

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a place to hook onto the floor so that

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you don't float away and any time that

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you open a bag everything wants to float

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out whether it's food or

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pieces of equipment and so that can be

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all right let's talk about the food you

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were among the first to eat the

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vegetables in space be honest cho how

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you know what i do enjoy

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a salad every once in a while on the

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ground and so um it actually tasted

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pretty good especially once we were able

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to put a little bit of

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balsamic vinegar on it

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you know the really exciting thing about

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growing that lettuce though was one that

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we were able to grow food up here that

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we could eat

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and then number two you know just the

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psychological benefits of growing

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something watching it grow

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having this green color and what's

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otherwise a fairly sterile environment

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was also

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all right uh scott is up there a year in

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you know scott is doing a terrific job

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he had we actually hit his uh halfway

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mark yesterday and so we're kind of on

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the downhill side which is still another

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six months but uh he's doing a terrific

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job i think he really started this

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mission with the expectation that was

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gonna he was going to be up here for a

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full year

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and uh so i think that he has the right

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mindset

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the right pace

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and he's doing a terrific job

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not only in his own work but in

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mentoring kimia and i as a new new space

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i know you have some family in our area

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how do you keep in touch with them and

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this is your turn do you want to say

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you bet well of course my my parents

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live in the northern virginia area so

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i'll say hi mom and dad

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um i also have uh lots of i graduated

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from high school uh from robinson

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secondary high school in fairfax

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virginia and so i have lots of friends

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that are still out there

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you know this is an amazing place to

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live and work and one of the real

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benefits of being up here right now

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in this modern age is that we have a

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whole suite of tools that we can use to

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communicate with the ground email we

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have an internet phone that we can use

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to call friends and family and then i

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get a teleconference once a week with my

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nice well and uh and now you're speaking

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with us live here on the ground so tell

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it's been fascinating i love all of the

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pictures that you've been posting on

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social media best of luck we'll be

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watching you as you continue your

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thank you so much for uh letting me

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of course we'll talk to you soon uh oh

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look at that he was doing a backflip you

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go tell you got it down