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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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boston boston museum of science this is

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mission control houston please call

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station for a voice check

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station this is museum of science boston

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i hear you loud and clear welcome aboard

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the space station

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all right commander kelly we are so

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excited to talk to you today with a lot

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of high school students who have some

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what are your responsibilities for

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well you know there are six of us on

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board and uh you know we share most of

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the responsibilities

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you know since we're you know so far

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away and going around the earth at uh

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pretty high speed we can't just call out

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for a repairman so you know one of our

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jobs is

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keeping all the systems maintained if

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something breaks we have to fix it

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you know a problem with the life support

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system or you know the electrical

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systems inside or outside for that

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we do a lot of science experiments

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uh so we're also the uh you know the

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eyes and ears and the arms of the

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scientists on the ground and you know in

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some cases where the uh where this the

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uh scientific subjects were for human

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and as the commander of the space

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station i'm also responsible for

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you know uh the overall kind of safety

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of how we operate on board and how we

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did you dream of being an astronaut when

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you're younger do you stumble upon the

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you know i had thought about being an

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astronaut when i was a kid but i think a

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astronaut when they're a kid

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little bit later in my life that i

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realized you know sometimes your dreams

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do come true

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um you know having said that you know i

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was in a uh

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kind of in a position as a

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pilot and a test pilot in the united

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states navy where i could you know apply

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uh probably wasn't until i was you know

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in my early 30s that i realized that hey

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this is probably you know something that

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might not be completely out of the realm

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what was one of the hardest challenges

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last on my last flight congresswoman

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gabrielle giffords was shot and uh

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in tucson with a bunch of other people

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some of those people were killed and

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wasn't uh you know coming home for a few

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months so that was uh you know a very

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lost their lives on

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columbia and uh you know as well as

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you know their their crewmates and my uh

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my colleagues so that was uh

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experiments that are going on throughout

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the year i'm here

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to to do all those and doing well and

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have the the researchers on the ground

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good care of the space station and its

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hardware and leave this uh this

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magnificent facility in better condition

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than uh than when i arrived so uh you

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know safety and then uh you know taking

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care of the hardware and uh completing

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you know that trains us and you know we

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do training in houston we do training in

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japan and europe and uh

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time there also in canada

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ground that that prepares us uh

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walks recently and i was really

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surprised at how much uh

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how much better the view would be so

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maybe i was unprepared for that

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of the universe affect perception of

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getting a glimpse of the universe but

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from the earth so it almost feels like

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thing else that's going on is uh you

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more of a an awareness about you know

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events on the earth and how

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another and uh you know the environment

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think a different kind of empathy for uh

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program great and something i've really

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earth earth that i miss and uh

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if i have this uh you know overwhelming

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longing and uh you know desire

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like this overwhelming desire that i

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need to get back home it's not quite

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and uh it's in these packages

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so you know you open up the package and

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it's this stuff is already wet so it uh

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you know kind of sticks together and you

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just eat it out of the bag with a with a

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how does your social media work do you

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take photos that you send back to earth

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for other people to post or can you post

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yeah so uh we've got a lot of cameras on

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board yeah i take the pictures even

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though you didn't ask that question but

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like a lot of the pictures i take of the

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earth i use this

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this long lens camera through uh through

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this window right down here that's right

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below us

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and uh

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then i post them um

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normally i post them myself

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um

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although i don't do that all the time it

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depends uh but most of the time i do it

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myself we have an internet connection

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and uh

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but everything i post is my you know

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picture and uh you know my words

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and the internet connection is kind of

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slow so it

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you know takes some time it's kind of

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like old fashioned dial up but

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it's

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do astronauts have to be engineers do

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um

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so

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they don't have to be engineers but

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most most uh

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i'm waving one of my colleagues through

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here he was going down to the russian

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segment

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and um

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yeah so

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most astronauts have some kind of

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technical i do have a technical

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background

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in science engineering math uh you know

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i i was an engineering major in college

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but a uh

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a uh

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pilot in the navy and some astronauts

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are in the military um

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uh you know one

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russian pilot uh from the russian

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military one my japanese colleague was a

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f-15 pilot in the japanese air force

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american colleague is a medical doctor

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and then the other two the two

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cosmonauts are engineers as far as

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coding and programming

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no you don't need to know that although

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we

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you know as a as a skill that you come

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into the astronaut office or the

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astronaut program with although we do

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have a lot of computers and there's a

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huge network of computers here that we

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actually have to take care of

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take care of them

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the

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don't

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you know do what i think you're

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do you perceive night and day

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differently because you see the sun

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yeah so we uh you know we're flying

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around the earth every 90 minutes so uh

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you know there's uh sunrise and the

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sunset

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and as a result

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you do

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perceive night and day

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somewhat differently

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but it's not really because of that

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because we're not looking outside all

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the time we don't have a whole lot of

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time to look outside so mostly our

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perception of night and day

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is really not having much of a

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perception of it because

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we're living in this enclosed

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environment and

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you know we're not outside

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it's kind of like you know the

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perception you would have in your house

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if you closed all the blinds and you

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of being on the iss

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i'm sorry you're gonna have to repeat

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your question i didn't hear the first

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part

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you know so a lot of this stuff is great

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right so uh you know the the floating is

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is fun and um

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you know the view

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is is great

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um but the best part about this for me

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is doing something that is uh

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you know incredibly challenging

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incredibly uh difficult work

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at it and

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you know the feeling of satisfaction you

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get from from doing a good job and uh

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you know that's what i like about flying

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in space is really just the challenge

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and the uh

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you know the the hard work and then you

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know hopefully being successful at it

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and that's something that you know i

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tell kids and you know other people that

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you can you know you can do that in the

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space program but you can do that in

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many other things in your life that you

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choose you know choose something

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that challenges you work hard at it and

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then you know be proud of your successes

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what was it like adapting to the

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conditions on earth when you turned from

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yeah you're definitely uh you're

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definitely dizzy you're

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you know you're sore for a while at

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least i was you know your

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your joints up here

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you know i think everyone's different

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but for me it's

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you know much better here um

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because there's not a whole lot of

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stress on them so i generally don't feel

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as uh you know have as much uh you know

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like joint pain and things like that and

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then when you get back on earth that

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kind of all comes back um

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but you're dizzy

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at first and being up for for a long

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time is uh

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is much different than a shuttle flight

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and how your vestibular system is

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affected but you pretty quickly adapt uh

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back to earth and uh you know it's which

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means in some ways you feel better and

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in some ways you you feel worse

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yeah so we don't shower we don't

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have a shower or bathtub

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what we do do is we get some water out

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of the water dispenser and we

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put it on a on a towel similar to this

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one and

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that's the shower that's the space

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do you have any down time and if so what

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you know we have a little bit of time in

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the evenings

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but you know most of our our

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waking hours during the week is work

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you get we get up you know around

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you know 6 6 30 in the morning and kind

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of prepare for the day and

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uh

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you know

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the last kind of official activity we

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have is around 7 or 7 30 at night a

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meeting with the ground to talk about

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any questions that remain

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today

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and then uh you know we generally go to

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sleep around 10 o'clock at night so it's

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a little bit of time there in the

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evenings and then on the weekends and

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what you know i do and i think most

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people do is you know you take you take

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pictures of the earth sometimes you uh

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you might watch movies read a book

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and uh you know i think people myself

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included spend a lot of time

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communicating with folks on the ground

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via email or

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things like that

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what is it like to use the bathroom in

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um what's it like to use the bathroom

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you know like i said earlier a lot of

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things are made more challenging up here

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because everything floats and uh that's

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do you have trouble sleeping

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yeah you know

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sometimes i think i sleep okay up here

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and other times not it's um

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it's different you know

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in some ways it's more comfortable and

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in some ways less i think you know one

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of the reasons why it's uh is less

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comfortable is

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the same position i'm in right now

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and kind of like the level of comfort is

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the same whether i'm

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asleep or awake it's just just like this

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so

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it's not like when you

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are on earth and you go lay down in your

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bed

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and you get an immediately like a change

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in your

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your comfort level because now you're

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lying down so

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um

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you know for for me that

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lack of that change in how

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you know comfortable you feel uh makes i

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think sleeping up here

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you know especially over long periods of

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do you believe there is life outside our

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i do

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um

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you know there

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are

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so many

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different uh

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stars out there in the universe

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apparently more

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than you know in every beach and on

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every desert on earth and if you

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consider

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those kind of numbers and you know we

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fly over a lot of those beaches and

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deserts and there's a lot of sand down

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there if you consider that's how many

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stars there are and the potential for

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planets that would be inhabitable you

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know i just have to believe that there

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is life out there and i don't know what

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kind of life but i i think it would be

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very unlikely that there wasn't

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i also believe that the distances are so

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great it's not like that life is

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visiting our planet you know in the form

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of

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ufos or anything like that so

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you know on one hand yeah i believe

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there is life out there but i don't

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believe that uh

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you know we experience it in the form of

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commander kelly thanks so much for

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talking to us today the space station

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will be flying over boston at 11 10

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greenwich time so we'll all be waving

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station this is houston acr

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thank you boston museum of science