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station this is rob navies in mission

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i hear you loud and clear rob

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great to see you scott uh it's hard to

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believe but your one year mission is

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drawing to a close it's certainly been

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an eventful year for you and mikhail

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kornienko and in looking back what would

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you consider to be the most important

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accomplishments of this year in space

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and perhaps the high and low points for

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well you know i

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there's still ten percent of the uh the

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time remaining so i don't uh

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i'm trying not to look at it like it's

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uh it's over so hopefully uh you know

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things will go smoothly from here on out

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we absolutely com accomplished a uh

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incredible amount of work uh both on the

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u.s

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operational segment here in the in the

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russian segment they actually the

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russians actually have an eva going on

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next week so uh you know we still have

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some very critical activities to do but

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i think by and large um you know our

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time here

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has demonstrated

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not only the capability for for us to

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stay in space for a long time and and to

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do well but also the capability of the

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ground teams

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uh to support um us and the systems that

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keep us alive and the resupply and do

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this in a way

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that is you know forward thinking

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a potential flight to mars we've

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collected a lot of data on our time here

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and that data is going to be you know

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analyzed later and

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uh you know research papers written so

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you know i don't draw any specific

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conclusions or can draw any specific

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conclusions from

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from that but i think uh you know it's

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been a been a great success and a a real

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privilege to be a part of it

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scott you mentioned the formulation of a

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future human mission to mars this

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one-year mission was all about gathering

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very important biomedical data in that

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regard do you consider yourself in

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sure um i guess you could use that term

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but i think we all are you know uh you

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know all the crew members over the last

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15 years and and even those that came

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you know flying in space is a

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is a process uh exploring space is a

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process that you take step by step so

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uh you know on one hand you know misha

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and i might be at the the front of that

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right now because we've spent uh you

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takes away from anything that all the

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previous folks have done you know

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towards that future goal of going to

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mars so i think you know i think we all

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are and as well as the folks on the

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ground that support us in such a great

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way to do these flights

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you said preflight that your plan was

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not to count days or months on a

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calendar engaging the passage of time

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but to do your best to pace yourself in

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what amounted to a marathon and not a

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sprint uh in retrospect how well do you

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think you did in that regard and what

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would that strategy yield for future

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you know i i think i did a pretty good

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job at it um

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a lot left in my my tank to to uh do

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some stuff if uh you know i need to

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the level of effort here in the next uh

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um so i i do think i kept the

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appropriate amount of reserve i'm not

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climbing the walls to

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yeah to get out of here although i do

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really look forward to returning to

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earth for for many reasons

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the the downside of that is now i have

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and there's a lot of stuff i didn't do

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that uh i feel like i have the capacity

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to do now like personal things um

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kind of set aside and consciously didn't

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the advice i would give to future folks

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as uh and future people is put a lot of

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thought into it because a year

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scott your career has spanned missions

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to service the hubble space telescope

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you commanded the flight of barbara

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morgan in which she fulfilled the legacy

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of the teacher in space program

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and you've conducted groundbreaking work

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how would you sum up your contribution

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to human space flight and ultimately the

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legacy you will leave after you return

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you know i've been really fortunate like

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you mentioned to have a

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a space flight career

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and it's you know it's a privilege and i

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you know luck uh certainly preparation

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and uh you know commitment to what we're

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doing goes into that but uh

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it's uh it's been a real privilege as

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you know my legacy i hope i've um

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involved in they've all been very

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successful so at least from you know

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kind of a technical

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capability uh you know i've i think i've

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brought something to the table and i

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looking ahead to landing this will be

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international space station in a soyuz

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spacecraft what are you looking forward

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to the most that was new to you five

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previously will try to prepare you for

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you've actually you know been there

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eye-opener and and uh you know once you

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drogue chute opening and all the

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pyrotechnics of various uh you know

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the plasma that's uh you know right

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type of an experience so hopefully uh

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what uh you know what's coming it'll be

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even more enjoyable this time

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scott the inevitable question when you

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believe it or not stuff like that

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experience i i actually

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spoon or your fork or your food floating

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away and uh you know dealing with the

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it's more the uh that kind of experience

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earth um the other things i'm looking

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running water those kind of things

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this mission will take a prominent place

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in the history books when it's complete

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uh from your perspective what do you

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you know it's hard for me to say right

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of other people are is that we're gonna

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we're gonna learn a lot of uh

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information that will help us eventually

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you know continue our path towards mars

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you know misha and i are only you know

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one uh one data point really or two data

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going to tell you you know you need a

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a lot more and a lot more numbers um to

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draw specific conclusions but i'm hoping

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what we find is

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are areas that we need to investigate

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thing from a you know physiological or

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take a a much closer look at this

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scott i want to thank you for your time

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today and joining us

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i wish you all the best to fly safe and

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have a soft landing and we'll see you

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soon in kazakhstan appreciate it very

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yeah my pleasure rob look forward to

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the event thank you

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thank you jsc public affairs station we