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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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bullock texas state history museum this

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is mission control houston please call

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station for a voice check

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station this is bullock texas state

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i hear you loud and clear how about me

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tim i'm gonna hand you over to james

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mcreynolds our public programs manager

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and take it from there

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hi tim this is james thanks for sounds

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it's my pleasure james

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well we've got 14 really excited kids

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here that want to ask you some questions

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but before we do that can you briefly

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tell us about your background and your

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absolutely you know i i've been here for

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about two months but it's actually been

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a very long path

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to get here i started out working as an

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army aviator many years ago and then

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after serving a couple of tours

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i became an experimental test pilot went

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to graduate school and then had the

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opportunity to work at nasa and then in

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2000 i was selected as an astronaut and

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i worked for

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nine years as an astronaut until my

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first flight and i came actually here to

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this international space station

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in 2009 and uh i'm very blessed to have

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this opportunity to come back here and

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serve on the international space station

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i'm a crew member right now in

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expedition

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47 in a few weeks

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our mission here is really to run this

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world-class orbiting laboratory we have

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over 200 experiments going on at any one

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they're a variety of experiments

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sometimes we're actively conducting the

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experiment other times we set this up

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and the the scientists on the ground

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conduct the experiment and then other

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times we're actually the experiment

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itself we have to maintain this facility

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because it's very very complex our

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environment here is exactly what we have

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it's not like earth in that respect

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and it's also our homes we have to

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maintain our home as well it's also very

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important that we maintain our bodies

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and our health too and so we exercise

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over two hours every day and so this is

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an absolutely wonderful place to live

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exciting i think you're inspiring some

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of our students to become astronauts

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right now

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let's get to some of the questions are

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i'm all set i'm really looking forward

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hello

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my name is joe myra

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how did it feel

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hydromara that's a great question you

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there's a physical response there's also

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an emotional response right so when i

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first got to space i was so happy

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because it had been a long time and a

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lot of work to uh to get on board both

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the space shuttle and then the

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international space station on my first

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flight physically though when i first

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came to space the first time i didn't

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feel so good i was a little bit queasy

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and a little bit dizzy but the amazing

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thing about the human body is that we're

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able to adapt to our environment and so

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after a few days i felt really really

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good this time around i think i was even

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happier to be back on board

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but also i think that i adapted quicker

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okay and our next question is going to

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come from peyton

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and my question is how does earth look

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well peyton it's a great question you

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know it's a very very beautiful planet

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that we call it earth because it's

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when we pass around the planet most of

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the time we're looking at the oceans in

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fact i think just about now we're coming

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over land but the last several minutes

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we've been over the atlantic ocean we're

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going over the united kingdom by time we

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finish up here today we'll be going over

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the caspian sea but it is a beautiful

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beautiful planet it's very dynamic

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there's lots of different colors and

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sometimes the colors are so dynamic it

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almost doesn't even look real but it is

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oh hi my name is eileen

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we're very very busy here and so

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we spend about maybe a third of our time

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doing science experiments about a third

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maintaining this vehicle and maybe a

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third exercising so we're very busy on

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board so for example today i was working

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that where we burn some items

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which is very interesting

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special glove box that makes everything

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safe and so we would insert these

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samples inside and get a little bit

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closer we insert these inside a chamber

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what that is for is the scientists on

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the ground they can understand better

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what happens to materials in space if

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they were to uh to get on fire and so

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flow and use different materials and

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the scientists in a lot of respects for

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we we maintain the vehicle and we have

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mechanic here on board space station

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the guys who have and gals who have to

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take care of this place and so we have

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special procedures that are prepared on

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the ground and uh from those procedures

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able to maintain the vehicle and keep

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to do on space station is go to one of

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the windows we have here and take

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photographs because it's just

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unbelievable how beautiful this planet

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good photographs of the planet in fact

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neighborhood i was just lucky enough to

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get a good photograph that came out

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clearly and we were in the right

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position with the space station or for

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me to take that photograph so taking

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have movies and television shows that we

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can watch they're stored up here or they

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cool a thing as you could possibly do

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that there's no water to push against so

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our voice down to the ground through a

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series of satellites and they do the

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hi my name is diana and my question is

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to have technical skills because we have

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a very technical job up here and so

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skills so that we can maintain this

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vehicle so that's very important but you

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is being able to get along with people

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sport it's not just a team here but

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people that help us do this and we're

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the ones that are most visible and i get

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to talk to you guys and gals but there's

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hello my name is leonardo

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my question is what's the hardest part

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you know i think the hardest part on

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space station leonardo is keeping track

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of stuff let me give you an example

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i'm convinced that if i were to carry

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more than three things in my hand at a

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time i am going to lose one of those

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items so say i have like these three

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pens and i'm looking around and all of a

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sudden i can't

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oh my goodness there goes my pen and so

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you have to be very careful about how

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you take care of your things and that

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what that means is that you just work

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differently you have to make sure that

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you're always planning where things are

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located and where you put them down

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because they don't just sit on the table

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they can sit on the wall or on the

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ceiling or they could just float behind

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one of these racks here and so it's

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important for us to keep track of our

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hi my name is sonia

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what kind of problems come up during a

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well this is a laboratory and it's also

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full of equipment and uh you know what

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happens with equipment over time is

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sometimes it wears out and sometimes it

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just breaks and so those are the kinds

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of problems that we have to deal with on

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board in fact

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we had a problem with

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a break on a mechanism outside when we

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first came on board and so we had been

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on space station for six days when we

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had to go do a space walk and fix that

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and then a couple weeks later we had to

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do another spacewalk in order to fix a

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piece of electrical equipment so that we

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could gain energy from our solar arrays

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and so we had to do these spacewalks

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which is a lot of organization and work

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for us to to put together in order to do

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we've also had problems with a device

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that cleans our air takes the carbon

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dioxide out and so we spent

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a day with one of my crew members

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repairing that piece of equipment so

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those are the kinds of things that

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happen on board and thankfully we're so

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well trained by the people on the ground

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hi my name is jezreel

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and what's the weirdest thing you've

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you know i wish i had a great story

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about these weird things i saw flying

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below us but unfortunately not i

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think one of the weirdest things i can

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see on board is how water performs i

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mean it's just water right but

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the weird thing about water is that uh

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there's no surface tension or the

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surface tension rather is what

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keeps the water together which makes it

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behave differently than it would

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on earth

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so if i can do this without making a big

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so this big

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drop of water let's see if i can coax it

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back up

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to me

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this is very strange right

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water is not supposed to look like this

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and it's not supposed to be inflated

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so that's an example of something weird

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my name is

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why do you choose to become an

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you know it's a great question because i

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think the reason that that i chose to

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try to become an astronaut and

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eventually be chosen as an astronaut is

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because i was inspired as a child

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when we had men landing on the moon many

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many years ago and it seemed like it

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would be such an adventure

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to to fly in space and it has been a

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tremendous adventure but the thing that

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i've learned from this is it's not

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simply the final bit of flying in space

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that was so neat

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the adventure really was the path along

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the way and so uh i'm very very grateful

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my name is jasmine and

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what do you need to be qualified and

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we know one of the main things is that

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you need to be healthy because

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even though we're trained to do medical

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procedures here we're not doctors and we

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don't have all the things that a

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hospital would have and so as a

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consequence we have to be very healthy

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but also we have to be very well trained

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in all the technical aspects of our job

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doing space walks being able to use the

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robotic arm outside because we capture

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visiting vehicles that have our supplies

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and then all the different activities we

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do on board to include the science those

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are things that we really need to know

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besides being an astronaut what the

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there are so many different kinds of

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jobs at nasa because it is a very large

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organization and so there are astronauts

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but there are the folks that train the

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astronauts they're engineers that design

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and build hardware they're people that

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support them with administrative duties

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and there's people that take care of the

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facility at johnson space center for

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example in all of the nasa centers and

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so there's a wide variety of jobs

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can we ask kids go into space right now

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no i am so sorry that uh kids can't go

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in space yet i hope that someday all

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kids will be able to go into space but

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right now

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it it takes a lot of energy for a rocket

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to get people into space and supplies

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into space and it's a very demanding job

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actually and so i hope that someday it

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can be more of a leisure activity

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frankly

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you know i thank you for all the

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questions these are excellent questions

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i can tell how smart you guys are and uh

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i really really appreciate the the great

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work that that kip does

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in fact uh i have a piece of advice i'd

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like to to give to all you students

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that are there at the bullock museum

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my my goal for you is for you to set big

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goals and the thing that is great about

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big goals is that it will excite you it

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will motivate you and it will keep you

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focused and you can do

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tremendously great things if you have

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big goals and i would encourage all of

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you to live by the motto of kip

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work hard

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play nice because it takes lots of hard

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work and getting along with others to do

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great things

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thank you so much

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thank you tim

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station this is houston acr

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thank you bullock texas state history