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station this is houston are you ready

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i am ready for the event

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cbs interactive this is mission control

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houston please call station for a voice

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station this is cbs interactive how do

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i have you loud and clear how many

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we are ready sir we hear you

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all right commander kelly thank you so

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much for doing this astronaut scott

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kelly is halfway through his year-long

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mission on board the international space

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station and he joins me now from the iss

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sir this is such a great moment for us

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uh you're at the halfway point in the

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feel uh pretty good

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been busy

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today's been a pretty busy day but

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overall i'm feeling great and

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you know look forward to the second half

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commander you are studying how

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weightlessness affects vision i find

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that really fascinating what have you

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well there are some uh some negative

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effects of living in this microgravity

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environment you know do do the

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microgravity also uh you know effects

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due to radiation and there's you know

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effects on our immune system

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um bone loss muscle loss things like

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that and one of them one of them is

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his vision

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as far as what we've learned so far from

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from this flight and some of the

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experiments that we've done i'm not too

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sure

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you know the scientists on the ground

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need to look at all the data that we get

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throughout the whole mission

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and then they

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they analyze it and they

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write papers and the papers are peer

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reviewed and published and that's a very

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very long process

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i know as far as like my symptoms of my

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vision

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as far as that's concerned

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you know even though i had some like

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structural changes last time

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in my eyes uh just subjectively my

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vision seems uh

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seems unchanged from from when i

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that's really interesting uh the other

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thing that i think a lot of people would

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find interesting sir is that you gave

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yourself a flu shot a couple of weeks

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ago uh given that the space station is a

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very sterile environment and all of you

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guys presumably are pretty healthy why

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well the flu shot was really just a way

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to test their immune system it wasn't to

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protect me

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from the flu

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i had the same flu shot it was actually

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last year's flu shot the flu shot the

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the serum formula

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changes every every year based on you

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know what the projected

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you know strain of the flu is i guess

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and so both myself and my brother had

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the last year's flu shot

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and then we both had last year's flu

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shot again

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recently to to see how our immune system

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responds and to compare

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my brother who is you know genetically

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very similar to me

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uh but on the ground how that compares

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to to mine and my immune response in

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space so flu shot was really just to uh

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a mechanism to study the the

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uh science of the immune system and not

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to protect me from the flu now we could

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get the flu up here if someone brought

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us the flu

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you're you're going to be in space for

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close to a year sir and one of your

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research projects is keeping a journal

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to chart your moods and your general

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impressions uh without giving us any

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secrets or any private moments what have

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you noticed in the changes in your mood

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you know i was pretty lucky that i had

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lived up here before and so i knew i

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you know i expected that this would

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would seem like a long time because i

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would last time i was up here for 50 159

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days now i've been up here for like i

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think 189 with

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with uh about that ahead of me

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um or a little less than that ahead of

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me so

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you know i did expect that you know i

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would have a feeling a little bit of uh

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you know fatigue from the duration from

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the fact that you're always at work you

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can't go outside

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you're always on a very you know pretty

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stringent schedule so i knew that going

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into it so i don't think it's affected

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my my mood much or my

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my behavior but it is something that you

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yeah and and the other thing that i

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think people are interested in you you

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put out on twitter you're very active on

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twitter which is great for all of us

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here on earth uh you back in april you

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tweeted a picture uh of your your

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bedroom on board the iss and you and you

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called it you said all the comforts of

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home uh well most of them so how well

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are you sleeping in that little cozy

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um it's interesting i sleep okay um

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it's somewhat different than on earth i

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mean i definitely miss the uh you know

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the weight of the the blanket and the

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feeling of the sheets and the pillows

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and stuff like that you don't really

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have that sense up here

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but uh you know the one advantage of of

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sleeping here and just living here in

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general is you know a lot of the aches

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and pains you have on earth after a

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go away i'm not really sure why but

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your joints and your muscles much

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except when you're exercising that you

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know they have more time to to heal and

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in that regard sleeping up here is more

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comfortable you know i don't have

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you know neck pain back pain things like

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so it's it's better in that respect but

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regards to like feeling like i said the

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weight of the blanket and the sheets and

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yeah i think a lot of people could get

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into not feeling any aches and pains sir

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that's pretty cool uh you know we saw

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another picture that you tweeted earlier

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uh the storm that we're expecting here

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in the east coast of the united states

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space i'm just wondering uh and there we

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see that image there it's pretty cool

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does it move very quickly across uh from

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your vantage point or does it sort of

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just hover there

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so i think that storm at the time was

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moving six miles an hour and we're

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moving 17 500 miles an hour so even if

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uh much faster you know fast storm speed

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that you would never notice it it seems

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so sir before we let you go we got only

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about two minutes left i gotta ask you

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you know a lot of people gush over

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astronauts and they think you guys are

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heroes but you've said in the past that

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you're just a regular guy i wonder

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though when you were a kid

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learning about neil armstrong or buzz

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aldrin or scott carpenter did how did

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as heroes you know very accomplished uh

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you know astronauts pilots test pilots

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them and and what

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they did and what they had accomplished

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here's the last dorky question i'm going

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to ask you sir uh do you ever get tired

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you don't i don't i don't get get tired

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of it you definitely

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you definitely get better at it

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you know the longer you're up here

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definitely get like olympic caliber

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flip uh technique after you've been up

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that is really cool

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we love it

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also notice you're wearing a bison belt

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i think it's a bison belt which they

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have one of those if you're wearing it

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yeah it's just i don't even know what

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brand it is it's just kind of a

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no uh no use for this little you know

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here because

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you know maybe maybe more eva i could

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all right commander scott kelly thank

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you so much sir for joining us that was

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my pleasure glad i could talk to you

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station this is houston acr that

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thank you cbs interactive station please