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jscpio this is mission control houston

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station this is johnson pao how do you

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good morning scott this is mark caro

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from aviation week in space technology

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i'd like to ask you what would you like

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the legacy of the flight that you and

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mikhail are about to wrap up what would

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you like the legacy of that to be for us

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good to hear from you mark um you know

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for the legacy of this flight to be that

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we can

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decide to do hard things and hard things

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that will take us further away from the

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earth and this is one of them and

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you know i'm i'm hopeful and i think

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we'll learn a lot about longer duration

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us to mars someday so i'd like to think

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that this is a another of many stepping

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hey scott eric berger with ours technica

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hope you're doing well um

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you've been up there for almost a year

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reflect a little bit on valerie

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hi scott robert perlman with

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um now you're getting ready to go home

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that have flown in space the same

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that other people do only because you

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for those of us that have never been in

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space can you kind of put in put into

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scott this is marcia dunn of the

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i'd like to know what's taken the

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hours of medical tests that end at about

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three in the morning

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and then i'm going to go home and jump

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okay next we'll hear from

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hi scott thanks so much for doing this

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um and this question is in no way

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meaning to at all belittle what has been

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a historic and extraordinary flight uh

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but i'm just curious is there some part

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of you that is slightly disappointed

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that you aren't up there for a full 365

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days that you're coming back on day 340.

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um

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you know i really don't think about

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yeah

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you know for me if i you know

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launched in march and land in march

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that's pretty close to a year um so no

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i'm not

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slightly disappointed at all actually

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it's actually something i haven't really

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next we'll hear from tracy watson with

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okay next let's try trevor hughes from

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good morning sir you've taken a lot of

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very beautiful photos of the earth over

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the past year what's been your favorite

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yeah i have taken a lot of pictures

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because i've been up here for a long

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time actually numbers wise i don't think

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i've taken you know that much compared

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to other

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crew members we've had up here but i've

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uh you know i've definitely taken some

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some good ones

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and some memorable ones

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you know

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hurricane patricia

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was pretty impressive

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some of the aurora we saw especially in

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the in the south during the uh the

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summer time

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um you know the bahamas always is always

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an impressive sight

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so

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you know i think i just got a really

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good picture of mount everest actually

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like an oblique picture but i'm kind of

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trying to confirm

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that it's actually everest but i think

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people really enjoy looking at that

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which i haven't posted yet but i took

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okay next up anne ball from voice of

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hello

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thank you so much for um talking to us

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today i was wondering um there's the

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recent story about apollo 10 and when

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they went on the dark side of the moon

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they heard strange sounds and i'm

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wondering if you have heard any strange

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sounds or strange musics

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that you could cannot identify while

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um

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not really i mean

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occasionally

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with the especially with the russian

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comm system with their vhf system you'll

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pick up signals uh on the from the

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ground so you'll hear you know

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interference that

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obviously originates on earth i mean we

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can hear airport atis information

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on that that vhf com system they have so

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you know i suspect you know probably

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what they heard on the moon maybe was

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something that was uh interference

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even though you say it was on the

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opposite side of the moon maybe there

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was some kind of uh

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you know transmission from the you know

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orbiting

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spacecraft down to the guys on the

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surface that probably originated on

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just a reminder to the foam bridge

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participants to press star 1 if you have

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a question and star 2 to withdraw your

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question if it's answered

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next we'll go to kenneth chang from new

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york times

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go ahead kenneth

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okay maybe we've lost him we'll try

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i just want to say uh you're making the

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people of new jersey very proud to call

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you one of our own and i just want to

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ask you is there anything about your new

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jersey upbringing that prepares you for

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you know when i was a kid i i don't know

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if it's particular to new jersey but my

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brother and i had a certain sense of

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freedom that i think kids at least you

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know my kids don't have with regards to

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what they're allowed to do and where

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they're allowed to uh

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you know venture when you're at a very

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young age

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and uh you know it's unfortunate that

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it's not that way but you know we lived

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a pretty uh

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exciting and uh adventurous life

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um very early on that uh

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you know i don't know if it's it's

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because of new jersey or just because of

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the times that i think you know probably

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contributed to my brother and i have a

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pretty having a pretty adventurous

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okay next question will be from charles

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atkinson with examiner.com

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thank you charles zackson examiner

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commander kelly will you stay on at nasa

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for project orion and how do you plan to

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contribute to america's upcoming

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missions away from low earth orbit uh in

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you know i will always uh try to stay

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involved in the space program in uh

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you know any capacity

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that will be allowed it's uh you know

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been my life my the last 20 years it's

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something i feel very strongly about

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you know there are times when you when

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you transition you know from from one

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thing to another but uh

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you know this has been my life and it's

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something i feel very strongly about and

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want to be a you know a big part of for

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next let's hear from jeremy with cnn

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okay reminder that if your question's

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been answered you can press star two to

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withdraw it if you have a question you

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can press star one

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let's go instead to jason davis with the

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hi scott thanks for taking my question i

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was hoping you could describe the

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physical test that you'll be going

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through immediately after returning to

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earth

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and how those tests will be applicable

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to trips to mars where an astronaut has

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spends a lot of time in weightlessness

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and suddenly has to adapt to gravity

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yeah so right after we get out of the

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soyuz they'll put us in the chairs that

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people often see uh sitting nearby the

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spacecraft and then from there we go

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into this medical tent and once we're

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inside the medical tent we'll be given a

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little bit of a time to adjust but then

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we

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go through about an hour of uh what's

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called this field test

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that is uh

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you know various uh different types of

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experiments some are physical

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kind of like you know even an obstacle

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course where you you know run around

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obstacles and you know

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stand up from a

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sitting position and jump and stand and

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you know looks at our uh

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you know our ability to uh you know for

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our

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adjust to those different positions and

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uh

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so

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uh it's pretty extensive stuff that we

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okay now we're going to try again with

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kenneth chang from the new york times

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all right thank you

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my question was

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did you notice any differences on the

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second six months compared to the first

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you know it's it's interesting when i

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when i look back on the time i've been

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here and think you know to the summer or

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even like you know the

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the fall

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september it seems like it was so so

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long ago

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and um

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but i don't know that there's been much

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of a difference i i've tried to take

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this uh

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do this with a very deliberate uh

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methodology deliberate pace

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looking

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not really at the end but what is the

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next milestone you know the next uh

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visiting vehicle that's coming the next

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crew members that that change out the

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next major science

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uh experiments we might uh have going on

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like you know looking at the

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microgravity science glove box here like

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the rodents you know we did that that

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was a that was a very big milestone

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um

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so

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and i think that's important i mean i

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think having those kind of milestones

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that break up a very long duration

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flight is something that is critical and

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maybe something you know we're going to

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have to think a lot about when we are

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going to mars where you know the next

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milestone might be six months later when

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you're arriving on the planet or you

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know six months later when you're coming

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home so

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um but i don't look at the whole

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experience like of the first six months

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last six months

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you know i try

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to almost only look to the next thing

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and uh fortunately you know we finished

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some some major maintenance on our water

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system

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uh just yesterday and that was a one of

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those big things not a giant thing but

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uh something that was i considered a

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milestone and next milestone is coming

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okay our next question is from lindsay

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hi

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uh what advice

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would you give to kids who want to

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so you know the advice i give

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and if you can mute your mic the advice

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i give about um

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you know kids that want to travel in

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space

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my assumption is they're talking about

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being a nasa astronaut and we have

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certain minimum requirements and and

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those are generally uh you know an

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expertise and a degree in some kind of

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technical field and that's important but

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what i also tell them it's important to

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choose something that you like a field

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that you like assuming it's qualifying

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because if you like it you're going to

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do better at it and nasa looks for

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people that have done you know a good

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job in their

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you know whatever field they were

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working in um

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and then also people that are that are

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pretty well-rounded not just focused in

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one specific area because up here you're

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really a generalist i mean you're

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everything from the medical doctor to

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the space walker to the you know to the

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plumber to the electrician to the

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scientist

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uh to the pilot in some cases

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so it's uh it's good to be very

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okay now we're going to go back to

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you made a few comments about our

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planet's atmosphere while you're up in

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space

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um since spending so much time up there

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has it changed your outlook on the

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yeah absolutely you know the more the

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more i look at earth and certain parts

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of earth the more i feel you know more

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of an environmentalist and

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someone that uh

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you know would like to do do a better

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job at helping to protect it

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there are definitely areas where

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you know the earth is covered with

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pollution almost all the time

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and

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that i've seen while i was up here that

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were in places that were unexpected

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storms

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you know bigger than uh you know we've

564
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seen in the past so

565
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you know i think there and and this is a

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human effect

567
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you can tell that that is not a

568
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naturally occurring phenomena it's not

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clouds you're looking at it is just a

570
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blanket of constant pollution in certain

571
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areas so you know we can we can fix that

572
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if we if we you know put our minds to it

573
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you know we can do amazing things if we

574
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put our minds to and that's one of the

575
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things i've learned up here by living in

576
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this incredible facility for so long is

577
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that you know if we can like i said

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earlier you know if we can dream it we

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can uh

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you know we can make it so so uh you

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know i hope to to do more when i get

582
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home

583
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one more reminder that if you have a

584
00:25:12,310 --> 00:25:10,080
question on the phone bridge you can

585
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press star one and if your question has

586
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been answered press star 2.

587
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next question will be from sarah hammond

588
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with arizona public media

589
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good morning

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you're one of the two subjects of the

591
00:25:27,430 --> 00:25:25,360
twin study and from your perspective

592
00:25:29,190 --> 00:25:27,440
scott what is the most important aspect

593
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of the study that will inform future

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you know i wouldn't want to pick one

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one of the studies over

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over any of the others as far as their

597
00:25:50,630 --> 00:25:48,390
that study is looking at a lot of

598
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important things

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between my brother and i and our

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physiology and how

601
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it

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you know changes over time in the course

603
00:26:01,909 --> 00:25:59,679
of the time i'm here you know one part

604
00:26:05,190 --> 00:26:01,919
of it is kind of a new area

605
00:26:07,510 --> 00:26:05,200
that nasa is uh is getting into

606
00:26:09,510 --> 00:26:07,520
um with this study is

607
00:26:10,390 --> 00:26:09,520
the effects of space flight on a genetic

608
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level

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and

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so that's something i'm pretty excited

611
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about you know for personal reasons but

612
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also for the uh to the research to to

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try to have a better understanding how

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this microgravity environment and the

615
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radiation environment affects us uh

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genetically

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you know there's a lot to learn and

618
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as we've seen over the last 10 years you

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know that that discipline of science has

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really just taken off so it's great to

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see us

622
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starting to focus on that in space as

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next up is candice dold from wbff

624
00:26:50,070 --> 00:26:47,679
scott many of the headlines about you

625
00:26:52,230 --> 00:26:50,080
right now speak about your year in space

626
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but 20 years down the road what will

627
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make you the most proud about your

628
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you know the thing i like

629
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most about flying in space is not you

630
00:27:09,669 --> 00:27:07,679
know the view or

631
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you know floating

632
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um you know the other stuff that's fun

633
00:27:17,029 --> 00:27:14,640
about this riding the rocket or you know

634
00:27:19,029 --> 00:27:17,039
coming back to earth the thing

635
00:27:21,909 --> 00:27:19,039
i like about it is doing something that

636
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i feel very very strongly about

637
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very passionate about

638
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something that's very difficult

639
00:27:31,510 --> 00:27:28,799
you know the work we do here every day

640
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is extremely

641
00:27:36,950 --> 00:27:35,840
concentration it's complicated

642
00:27:38,950 --> 00:27:36,960
um

643
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and you know we work hard at it and i

644
00:27:42,870 --> 00:27:40,720
work hard at it and

645
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you know i'm just gonna be

646
00:27:46,070 --> 00:27:44,399
you know 20 years from now i'll think

647
00:27:49,430 --> 00:27:46,080
back and i think i'll just be proud that

648
00:27:52,470 --> 00:27:49,440
i had a basically a you know 20 year or

649
00:27:56,149 --> 00:27:52,480
more year career here with four

650
00:27:57,909 --> 00:27:56,159
uh very successful space flights that uh

651
00:28:00,070 --> 00:27:57,919
you know accomplished most of our

652
00:28:02,149 --> 00:28:00,080
mission objectives and and it wasn't

653
00:28:04,149 --> 00:28:02,159
easy and i worked hard at it and and it

654
00:28:05,990 --> 00:28:04,159
was a success so it's really the whole

655
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the whole thing that uh

656
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next question is from joy malbon with

657
00:28:15,830 --> 00:28:13,520
canadian television

658
00:28:17,750 --> 00:28:15,840
commander kelly um you've spoken about

659
00:28:19,510 --> 00:28:17,760
some of the lovely pictures you've taken

660
00:28:26,389 --> 00:28:19,520
and i'm wondering if the northern lights

661
00:28:30,789 --> 00:28:28,470
oh absolutely i

662
00:28:33,430 --> 00:28:30,799
got some great uh northern lights

663
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pictures over canada

664
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um

665
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he actually you know tweeted uh several

666
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of them and uh yeah the northern lights

667
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are

668
00:28:50,070 --> 00:28:49,039
may know it's it's affected um by the

669
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the sun

670
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and their solar cycle and

671
00:28:56,789 --> 00:28:54,720
while i've been up here the southern

672
00:28:59,669 --> 00:28:56,799
lights we've had have been really

673
00:29:04,470 --> 00:28:59,679
incredible as well so it's

674
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one more question from bear essential

675
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hello scott this is stephen ginn with

676
00:29:15,190 --> 00:29:12,880
bare essential news

677
00:29:17,590 --> 00:29:15,200
and my question is

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you've taken a lot of breathtaking

679
00:29:24,230 --> 00:29:22,240
photos from your vantage point on iss

680
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how much of a privilege has this been

681
00:29:32,070 --> 00:29:26,559
for you and at what age did you get into

682
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well this is an incredible privilege to

683
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be able to

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work for nasa and

685
00:29:42,710 --> 00:29:41,360
represent my country

686
00:29:44,470 --> 00:29:42,720
our country

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um

688
00:29:49,990 --> 00:29:48,000
and i feel extremely fortunate

689
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to you know been given this

690
00:29:56,310 --> 00:29:53,760
responsibility to be able to do this

691
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as far as photography is concerned

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uh

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that's part of our job you know it's

694
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something that i really just started

695
00:30:07,430 --> 00:30:04,080
getting into when i became an astronaut

696
00:30:09,990 --> 00:30:07,440
and uh you know because we have such a

697
00:30:11,830 --> 00:30:10,000
great canvas with the earth and such a

698
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you know a unique vantage point that

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they

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you know it's you know

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mandatory that we we capture it and

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station this is houston acr that

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and thank you to all participants