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station this is the voice of america

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we hear you loud and clear welcome

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oh wonderful i wish i could be there in

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person to do this interview um we have

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uh standing by who wants to say a quick

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hello uh john larson he is the ceo of

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the broadcasting board of governors

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commander kelly cosmonaut kornienko

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welcome to voice of america thank you

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for taking the time to do this interview

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well it's uh it's our pleasure and we're

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we're happy to be here today and be able

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to share the uh

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the international space station and our

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joint uh space station program with you

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scott and uh mikhail you are space

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pioneers this is the first time

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um that anybody's been up in space

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longer than six months and you've been

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there 11 months now we we had someone

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from our worldwide audience at voa right

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in and uh wanted to know from ethiopia

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what is your mission can you tell us

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what is your mission what are you doing

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well this actually isn't the first time

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people have been in space for longer

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than six months we've had crew members

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longer than that i think a little bit

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over 200 days and the russians

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have flown cosmonauts on the uh

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the mere space station i think salyut

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and in some cases longer but this is the

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first time we're flying this long on the

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we've been here for over 10 months and

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we'll leave in march we launched in

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march and our mission here is to

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effects mostly the effects on our

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physiology and and psychology of

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long-duration space flight so we can uh

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eventually

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go on to mars and the space station is a

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really unique uh facility to do this

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kind of research and we have it now so

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what are some of the highlights of your

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research what have you found

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so there are about 400 different uh

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scientific experiments going on here

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throughout the the course of the year

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that misha and i are here and they're in

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all different scientific disciplines

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some of them however are dedicated to

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our our time on board and those

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are mostly related to our physiology

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there's uh there are issues with

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long-duration space flight and the you

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potentially the the problem or the

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problems that can occur with our

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physiology increase such as bone loss

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and muscle loss effects on our vision

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from the radiation environment things

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that used a lot of the the imaging

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segment but using their device that puts

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negative pressure on our body to look at

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on our vision and all this data

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that we've been collecting over there it

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needs to go down the earth and analyzed

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you know it's really not until the

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scientists have collected it all will

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you know i was up here last time for 159

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much different than last time i do

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notice some effects initially

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know what have we learned since we've

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yes well i was going to ask both of you

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himself but uh you know i don't feel

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like i'm going you know stir crazy i'm

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not really actually sure what that means

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you know sense of you know i gotta get

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opportunity and i you know i think what

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we're doing here is important and it

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does seem like a privilege so you know

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the importance of it it

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makes it makes it easier and i'll let

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i fully agree with my colleague and my

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we were selected based on

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how reliable and how tough we are so if

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necessary we can break this record even

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yes and and i wanted to ask um mikhail

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this question that um in an interview

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before you left earth you said if we

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could send the two presidents up for two

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weeks problems on earth would be settled

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what do you think about that now 10

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months later is it time to use the space

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in the fact that given how long we've

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entire flight which is a proof that how

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humanity so i can only confirm my words

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if we could send our politicians here

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for a month or month and a half then all

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the problems on earth would be resolved

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uh scott let me ask you this you've

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taken these beautiful pictures when you

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look down at earth and when you look out

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the time you know 24 hours

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bad stuff going on down there all the

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saying you know as an observation

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beautiful place it's uh you know it's

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our home and uh

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mikhail we're out of time thank you for

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station this is houston acr that

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of the event please stand by for a voice

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station this is westwood one how do you

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we hear you loud and clear welcome

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aboard the space station

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good morning and it's uh great to be

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i assume it's appropriate to say good

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morning commander kelly do you refer to

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time and the vastness of space as

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morning i figured i'd say good morning

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flight engineer korneyenko for many

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american children especially those of us

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that as children saw the lunar landings

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superheroes like superman and spider-man

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are you treated like a rock star in

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people who are resolving a very

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pyramid which is beneath us

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unique study you have an identical twin

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brother mark also an astronaut but at

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first interviewed uh to be astronauts so

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you know hopefully from this you know

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study we'll learn learn something about

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you know the genetic effects

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and you know areas where we need to go

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investigate further

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i may never have another opportunity to

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ask someone that's had the perspective

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you've had of orbiting the earth so i'd

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like to ask each of you what's your

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personal message for those of us down

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here on this little blue dot flight

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engineer kononenko are we doing okay

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spirit

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i cannot be overly optimistic that

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everything is great on earth and this

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can be clearly seen from here from above

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i can only join my colleague and say

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that our

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planet is very fragile so we need to

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take care of it and this can be easily

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seen

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from here say in 07 i mounted the

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kilimanjaro mountain and it had a

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glacier on the top of it and

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now i can see what uh

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reducement has taken place

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so we need to take urgent measures

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commander kelly you've had time almost a

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year now on this mission alone to

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consider the question anything uh you

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you know th this space station really

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demonstrates um you know what we can

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achieve

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uh very difficult things that we can

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achieve if we uh you know put our minds

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our expertise our cooperation

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uh to work

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this is an incredible facility it does

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incredible research we've been flying it

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continuously for the last 15 years and

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it uh

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you know really

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for me re-ensures the the power of our

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our uh

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our capability the power of our you know

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ability to achieve great things

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but you know when you do look down at

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the earth we see you know often all the

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you know the stuff that

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goes on that's uh

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not great so

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it uh it makes me think that you know we

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have this great potential and we can

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always do better

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commander there are hundreds of

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experiments that you're carrying out

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aboard the space station the twin

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research being done on you and your

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brother a big one what's the research

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well hopefully uh you know

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that research like i said i said earlier

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and

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the the the science that is uh

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has to do with misha and i being here

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for a year

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is to

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expand our knowledge and understanding

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of the effects of of

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this microgravity and

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space environment on our our physiology

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and our psychology so

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someday hopefully in the not too distant

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future we can go on to mars and and be

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able to mitigate these effects and the

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space station is incredible incredible

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facility to do this kind of research you

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know we're not going to have this this

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uh space station forever and we need to

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take advantage of it while we can to

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further our goals of exploring beyond

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low earth orbit

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now before you blasted off uh from earth

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you were flying for the navy in an f-14

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that was right around when the movie top

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gun was so hot when your astronaut days

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are over you think you're going to go

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well i think i'll always be flying

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whether it's as an astronaut or even a

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private

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another um i enjoy it it's uh it's

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unfortunate though i'll never fly the

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f-14 tomcat again because we don't uh

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that plane was retired i think in 2006

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and it's uh something i you know it's an

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airplane i definitely miss and that's uh

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you know great part of our

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our you know aviation history and the

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you know the legacy of that airplane

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i'll hopefully live on for a long time

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cosmonaut kononenko you've been in space

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before but i don't think this long

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before when you land will you then have

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been the cosmonaut with the longest

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many more days than i have

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my colleague and i will share the record

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in terms of

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a duration of uh staying on the station

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so we'll share this record together

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man when you touch down i'm sure there

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are a lot of operational assessments

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that uh are to be done but assuming

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assuming you could get out of the

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capsule meet up with your family and do

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whatever you wanted to

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foreign

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i look at the sky from below and i'll

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commander kelly what's first on your

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you know after like seeing my friends

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and family the first thing i'm going to

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do when i walk into my house

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i'm going to walk in the front door and

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i'm going to walk out the back door and

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i'm going to jump in my pool and you

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know i miss water

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and

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not just taking a shower but that kind

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of feeling

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astronaut kelly cosmonaut kornienko

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aboard the international space station

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thanks for spending time with us and we

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look forward to seeing you both safely

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our pleasure