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station this is houston are you ready

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hey we are ready for the event

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npr this is mission control houston

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station this is npr how do you hear

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me we have you loud and clear welcome

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aboard the space station

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hello can i ask you

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can i ask you two to introduce

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yeah so i'm uh scott kelly i'm a nasa

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astronaut commander of the space station

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hi i'm michael cronier flight engineer 2

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on board the station

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nice to meet you both can you tell me

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yeah so uh i'm gonna look at the map

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here real quick we are uh

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southern part of the pacific ocean

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approaching

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the uh southwestern part of uh south

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america and heading up towards europe

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in that direction

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i guess you say when you're in that part

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of the pacific ocean you are far above

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that is true and we will not be in that

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part of the pacific ocean for very long

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because we're going very fast 17 500

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wow

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what does it look like for those of us

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well it's uh you know it's an impressive

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view i would describe it as you know

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breathtaking of you know first few times

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you know yeah it never gets old looking

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at the earth you're it's a very

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beautiful place it's uh very blue

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there's a lot of water

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a lot of ocean down there um but other

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parts of it are an incredible uh

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place to look at and you know something

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that i think you know most astronauts

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a uh you know a better appreciation for

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our home planet when you get to view it

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from this perspective

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you are both spending a full year on the

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not setting the record for the longest

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time in a single space flight but still

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it's the longest anyone has spent in

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space for a while what day are you on

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we are on day i think it's 193.

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yeah 193.

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yeah that's true more than halfway

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i wonder how it's affecting you guys

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can you can you say that one more time

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please sure how is it affecting you each

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i mean and is it affecting you each in

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well i think what you mean is you know

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how is being up here for a really long

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time affecting us um

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you know for both of us have flown

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long-duration flights before for me

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uh what it would be like when i was here

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last time i was here for 159 days and

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that seemed like a long time

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this was going gonna be yeah this was

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you know i'm getting to the point now

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where it i almost seems it almost seems

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like i've forgotten what it's like to

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you know just becoming more of a a

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mikhail um have there been any any

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surprises up there on this on this

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overcome that and it did not affect our

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failures as surprises but

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lot of equipment i never think of it as

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a place that i would really want or need

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orbiting laboratory and a lot of the

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modules are science modules to do all

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physiology and the the negative effects

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normal working process when you work as

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they are never destructive

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middle ground and we never have

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arguments in a bad way maybe sometimes

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my pleasure my name's scott

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sorry it was wrong i read it wrong in

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the npr portion of the event

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please stand by for a voice check from

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station this is nbc how do you hear me

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captain scott we have you loud and clear

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loud thank you scott kale good to see

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scott you've been up there 193 days now

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this is not an endurance contest

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this is science i know a lot of

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measurements are being taken between

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where you are and your brother mark on

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the ground but what does your body tell

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you about the effects of being in space

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you know physically i i feel pretty good

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how i feel physically i feel fine

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but there's a lot of research that is

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you know we don't feel and and see those

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effects the stuff like you mentioned

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be on our you know our genetics or you

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know bone loss effects on our vision but

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notes about how you're feeling and

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wondering if you're feeling the the same

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scott your brother mark wrote a terrific

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essay he's talking about life on the

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space station he says you wake up in an

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environment that is exactly the same as

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the day before it imagine being stuck in

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your office for 173 days and no way to

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go outside and with no up and no down

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and nothing ever changing and know

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you've got nearly six months to go

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before you can leave that's a pretty

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decimal description tell me where you

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are right now what you know how much

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freedom of movement do you have to just

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well um the space station is

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as far as where we are over the earth

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we're

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or above the atlantic ocean as far as

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where we are in the space station we're

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in the in the u.s laboratory module

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which is uh one of the main uh modules

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of the space station it's a science

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laboratory but it's also the

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kind of like the almost the bridge of

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the ship

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for the space station at least on the us

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side of the space station but the

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station itself is like a you know about

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the size of a five-bedroom house we

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never feel like we could use more room

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it's very spacious it's got a lot of

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laboratories science laboratories on

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here so there's uh there's plenty of

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space for us as far as you know getting

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uh you know alone time we have these uh

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crew quarters so we can it's the size of

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like a phone booth so we can get some

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a couple of the supply resupply ships

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were lost on the way up to you was that

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disheartening and did it cause any major

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yeah so we had a

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you know a bad year um

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with regards to resupply we lost three

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cargo vehicles in the in the span of i

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guess about a year's time

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so you know on one hand it's it's

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unfortunate we lost a lot of you know

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science equipment and other supplies

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um you know at the same time i think it

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demonstrates the resiliency of our

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program

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um where we we can lose that

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type of hardware and and still continue

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on

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we have a certain level of redundancy

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between you know the us and the russian

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system so that helps a lot and i think

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it just you know shows the the

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flexibility and like i said the

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resiliency of our our program so

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yeah it kind of stinks especially for

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the the people that you know

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some of this is their scientific

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experiments and they're going to have to

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you know rebuild them and re-fly them

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again

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you know for us i think it's a little

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bit more

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and i'm looking off to your right i see

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a couple of big long lens cameras there

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are those the ones you've been sending

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back these terrific pictures of i've

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seen your your pictures of sports

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stadiums of of hurricanes uh how

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much is that a hobby and how much is

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um you know it's it's i think it's

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some of it is science um you know there

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are certain experiments that we do when

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we take pictures of the hurricanes to to

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see if you can judge um you know the

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speed and the the uh

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the the danger of a hurricane without

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actually having to send a uh an airplane

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into the eye of the storm like like we

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often do um

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you know some of it is is hobby and and

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more like uh you know public outreach

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kind of things but uh you know i do it

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because because i enjoy it uh it's not

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um you know most of the stuff i do isn't

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required

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but hopefully it has

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part of what the two of you are doing is

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demonstrating what the effects would be

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on an astronaut to travel on a mars

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mission i saw a picture of of you all

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watching the movie the martian and i'd

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like both of your opinions how real was

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it um

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there was a lot of uh stuff in the movie

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that was uh very realistic and i think

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part of that was because nasa

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um you know helped the production

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company in making the movie so a lot of

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the hardware and procedures terminology

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and stuff you know one of my colleagues

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said one of the when he was uh when the

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matt damon character was looking at his

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menu it was actually the food that we

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have up here

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and we it was the same stuff so there

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was a lot of realism

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so

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you know it was uh it was great to

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to watch it up here it's great to watch

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space movies up here you might not think

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so

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almost counter-intuitive to

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think you we would enjoy watching a

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movie about

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like the movie gravity for instance or

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you know about a guy being stuck on mars

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and mikhail what did you think of it and

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did it make you wonder whether we will

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see a trip to mars a man trip in your

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i liked the movie very much and i agree

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with scott it was very realistic a lot

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of true details

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all technical details were very very

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close to reality

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it was a very well made movie

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and as far as the

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flight to mars is concerned

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i believe that during our lifetime we

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will be able to witness it

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maybe it won't happen as soon as we

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would like it to happen but it will

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all right maybe you can take matt damon

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with you gentlemen thank you very much

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for your time and continued

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safe travels in space hope to talk to

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yeah our pleasure thanks for your time

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the event thank you